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Ethnography in Today's World : Color Full Before Color Blind.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Haney Foundation SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethnography in Today's WorldDDC classification:
  • 305.800973
LOC classification:
  • GN345 -- .S255 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. ENGAGING ETHNOGRAPHY -- 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York City -- 2. The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in Queens -- 3. What Ethnographies Leave Out -- PART II. ETHNOGRAPHY, PAST AND PRESENT -- 4. Ethnography -- 5. Anthropology's Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers -- 6. The Ethnographic Present -- PART III. COMPARISON AND CONTEXTUALIZATION -- 7. Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political Activism -- 8. Intermarriage and the Future of Races in America -- 9. Rethinking Migration, Ancient to Future -- PART IV. ETHNOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY -- 10. Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural Things -- 11. Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World -- 12. Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of Ethnography -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In Ethnography in Today's World, anthropologist Roger Sanjek addresses the essential practice and purpose of ethnography in ethnically diverse settings. Drawing on decades of globe-spanning fieldwork, he examines how ethnographic fieldwork is and can be conceived, conducted, and communicated in today's interconnected world.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. ENGAGING ETHNOGRAPHY -- 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York City -- 2. The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in Queens -- 3. What Ethnographies Leave Out -- PART II. ETHNOGRAPHY, PAST AND PRESENT -- 4. Ethnography -- 5. Anthropology's Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers -- 6. The Ethnographic Present -- PART III. COMPARISON AND CONTEXTUALIZATION -- 7. Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political Activism -- 8. Intermarriage and the Future of Races in America -- 9. Rethinking Migration, Ancient to Future -- PART IV. ETHNOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY -- 10. Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural Things -- 11. Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World -- 12. Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of Ethnography -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

In Ethnography in Today's World, anthropologist Roger Sanjek addresses the essential practice and purpose of ethnography in ethnically diverse settings. Drawing on decades of globe-spanning fieldwork, he examines how ethnographic fieldwork is and can be conceived, conducted, and communicated in today's interconnected world.

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