Overview

With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore, this volume contains personal, imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly context, yet are a vital part of research. Some pieces are engaging autobiographical accounts of ethnographers' experiences in the field, while others are fictional narratives. These tales take readers to a range of locales, offering richly detailed portraits of informants, local cultures, and life in the field.

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Resonant, provocative, and genre-bending, these pieces capture - and at times engender anew for readers - those moments of recognition, misrecognition, and indeterminacy frequent in ethnographic engagement. A lively and significant contribution and one that raises questions of real consequence with elan and principled imagination.. <br>-Don Brenneis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. <br> What most recommends [this] is the quality and care with which the individual contributions have been produced.there is not a weak or superfluous piece among them.. <br>-George Marcus, Rice University <br>

Resonant, provocative, and genre-bending, these pieces capture - and at times engender anew for readers - those moments of recognition, misrecognition, and indeterminacy frequent in ethnographic engagement. A lively and significant contribution and one that raises questions of real consequence with elan and principled imagination.. -Don Brenneis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. What most recommends [this] is the quality and care with which the individual contributions have been produced.there is not a weak or superfluous piece among them.. -George Marcus, Rice University

""What most recommends [this] is the quality and care with which the individual contributions have been produced.there is not a weak or superfluous piece among them."" -- George Marcus, Rice University ""These ethnographic 'outtakes' vividly demonstrate how ethnographers and the people they write about brush against one another in a complex interpolation of exterior and interior realities. This volume is a pleasure to read: truly enjoyable, deeply moving, and full of solid scholarship."" -- Marina Roseman, Pacific Graduate Center ""Resonant, provocative, and genre-bending, these pieces capture - and at times engender anew for readers - those moments of recognition, misrecognition, and indeterminacy frequent in ethnographic engagement. A lively and significant contribution and one that raises questions of real consequence with élan and principled imagination."" -- Don Brenneis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. ""While the book presents a collection of works in very diffrent styles, editors Emoff and Henderson have done an excellent job combining these diverse species of ethnographic narrative into a meaningful and provocative volume."" -- Anthropology & Education Quarterly

What most recommends [this] is the quality and care with which the individual contributions have been produced.there is not a weak or superfluous piece among them. -- George Marcus, Rice University These ethnographic 'outtakes' vividly demonstrate how ethnographers and the people they write about brush against one another in a complex interpolation of exterior and interior realities. This volume is a pleasure to read: truly enjoyable, deeply moving, and full of solid scholarship. -- Marina Roseman, Pacific Graduate Center Resonant, provocative, and genre-bending, these pieces capture - and at times engender anew for readers - those moments of recognition, misrecognition, and indeterminacy frequent in ethnographic engagement. A lively and significant contribution and one that raises questions of real consequence with elan and principled imagination. -- Don Brenneis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. While the book presents a collection of works in very diffrent styles, editors Emoff and Henderson have done an excellent job combining these diverse species of ethnographic narrative into a meaningful and provocative volume. -- Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Author Information

Ron Emoff is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Ohio State University, Newark. David Henderson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at St. Lawrence University.

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