Overview
Fieldworkers' notebooks are full of sensations and observations in which the subjectivity of the ethnographer seeps through. Not really science. Much closer to life. Yet in classical anthropology they are invisible to the reader. In this book the focus is reversed, turning Anthropology Inside Out as it explores the vibrant backstage life of field notes. What happens when we put them centre stage? Aimed at both curious novice and experienced practitioner, the chapters read as a catalogue of experimental practices teetering on the edge of the tradition: intuitively observational drawings; notes pervaded with paranoia; collective notetaking;crisis-ridden personal confessions; layers of notes in photographs and archives; old flip-flops that trigger memories in mind and body. This exploration of what field notes are, can do and could be, concludes with a constellation of shimmering notes on notes from Michael Taussig, a meta-commentary on anthropologists' fetishistic relationship with the most personal of professional tools.
Full Product Details
Author: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, ,
Anne Line Dalsgard ,
Mette Lind Kusk ,
Maria Nielsen
Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
Imprint: Sean Kingston Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.452kg
ISBN: 9781912385218
ISBN 10: 191238521
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 21 July 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This extremely timely and original book starts a long overdue discussion within anthropology. The authors are to be commended for filling a gap in the methodology literature, which was so glaring until now as to be invisible to most of us.'Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo; 'The book is steeped in love for the materiality of the process of learning about life -inner life as well as the life out there. The chapters open up for reflections on the artistic and scientific aspects of the anthropological endeavour and become experimental in their expansion of the genre of anthropological work and thinking.'Professor Inger Sjorslev, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Anthropology,University of Copenhagen.
Author Information
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University. Anne Line Dalsgard is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Mette Lind Kusk is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at VIA University College Aarhus, Denmark. Maria Nielsen holds a master degree in anthropology from Aarhus University. She is enrolled as a PhD student at the department of Anthropology at Aarhus University. Cecilie Rubow is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Mikkel Rytter is professor MSO in the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.
