Susan Bibler Coutin, Barbara Yngvesson

Documenting Impossible Realities

Ethnography, Memory, and the As If

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations, and asks what image of reality appears if the 'real' is engaged through its approximations-the child in an adoptive family; the undocumented forced to as legal citizens; politically disappeared persons known only through their material remains?"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781501768880
• ISBN-10: 1501768883
• Artikelnr.: 67074555

Autorenporträt

Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: "What Lies Back of the Work"
1. Counterfeiting Reality: Legal Fictions and the Construction of Everyday
Belongings
2. Fieldsight: Multivalent Ways of Seeing in Ethnography and Law
3. Schrödinger's Cat: The "Missing Middle," Discredited Histories, and
Measurement Problems
4. The Search for a "Back": Archivists of Memory
5. Beyond "Spooky Action at a Distance": An Ethnography of the Future