Abstract
This paper presents the change in the practice of ethnographic presentation as witnessed by an anthropologist whose own field reports have progressed from observing 'whole communities', to a society dispersed in an urban environment, to the portrayal of unrelated participants in voluntary associations and support groups. The paper tackles the professional uncertainties raised by the postmodern discourse that seems to detract from the centrality of fieldwork in the anthropologists' endeavour as well as well as in the perception of their professional identity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 305-319 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Social Anthropology |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2007 |
Keywords
- Ethnographic writing
- Fieldwork
- Manchester School
- Postmodernism
- Reflexivity