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Where is the Field?: The Experience of Migration Viewed Through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork - Softcover

 
9789522223883: Where is the Field?: The Experience of Migration Viewed Through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9522223883 ISBN 13: 9789522223883
Publisher: Finnish Literature Society, 2012

Synopsis

The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the 'field' seems to present a particular challenge for researchers. This book is of interest to experienced ethnographers working in the discipline of migration studies and also to scholars conducting ethnographic research in other fields.

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About the Author

Hanna Snellman is Vice Rector and Professor of Ethnology at the University of Helsinki. Snellman's research since the 1990s has focused on the ethnography of mobility, especially Finnish Lumberjacks and Finnish immigrants to Sweden and North America, and the History of European Ethnology. In addition to several articles and book chapters, she has published four monographs including Khants' Time (2000) and The Road Taken (2005), and co edited several volumes and special issues such as Journal of Finnish Studies issues The Making of Finland: The Era of the Grand Duchy (2018) and Bittersweet: Everyday Life and Nostalgia for the 1950s (2016).

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Publisher
Finnish Literature Society
Publication date
2012
Language
Finnish
ISBN 10 
9522223883
ISBN 13 
9789522223883
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
221
Editor
Hirvi Laura, Snellman Hanna