Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods (Routledge Advances in Research Methods) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415849012 ISBN 13: 9780415849012

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George Marcus himself, the person most associated with the term and the method. These researchers were brought together not only to discuss the shifting meaning of the concept in anthropology, but also to see how it has influenced actual research projects that have spanned the world. The volume that has resulted is not meant to be read as a program but as an extended provocation, an argument that multi-sitedness can be good not only to think, but also to act, both with and through. Arguably, this creation of a dynamic, shifting perspective is not so different from anthropology itself – a discipline dependent on the cultivation of aesthetic, embodied and intellectual sensibilities in relation to the world at large.

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About the Author

Simon Coleman is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

Pauline von Hellermann is a Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415849012
• ISBN 13: 9780415849012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Coleman Simon, Von Hellermann Pauline