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OverviewDocuments reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher. Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the sciences to bureaucracy to law; at the same time, fieldworkers document social realities by collecting, producing, and exchanging documents of their own. Capping off a generation of reflection and critique about the promises and pitfalls of ethnographic methods, the contributors explore how ethnographers conceive, grasp, appreciate, and see patterns, demonstrating that the core of the ethnographic method now lies in the way ethnographers respond to, and increasingly share the professional passions and problems of, their subjects. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Annelise Riles , Mario Biagioli , Donald Brenneis , Carol HeimerPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9780472069453ISBN 10: 0472069454 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 October 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSophisticated and provocative. The original and unique focus of this volume effectively opens up a new arena of critique that will move ethnography and qualitative inquiry forward in a way that few other works do. - George Marcus, Department of Anthropology, Rice University This edited collection asks how an understanding of documentary forms sheds light on the creation and circulation of modern forms of knowledge, expertise and governance. This is a major intervention in how we understand the everyday practice and techne of the documentary impulse and documentary apparatuses of law, bureaucratic review, and other institutions of modernity, as well as linguistic anthropology, literary theory, and law. The topic of Documents is not just of interest because of epistemological quandaries in the human sciences over textualization and interpretation, but also because the domains to which we increasingly turn our attention are themselves auto-documentary. - Bill Maurer, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine Author InformationAnnelise Riles is a Professor of Law and Anthropology at Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |