Sandra Wallman

Sometime Kin

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and "truth" are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9781789203394
• ISBN-10: 1789203392
• Artikelnr.: 55765381

Autorenporträt

Sandra Wallman is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. Her many publications include Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology (Routledge, 1992), The Capability of Places (Pluto Press, 2011), and the short story collection Listening for Water (Troubador, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Perspectives
Chapter 2. Setting
Chapter 3. Boundaries
Chapter 4. Population
Chapter 5. Children
Chapter 6. School
Chapter 7. Money and Property
Chapter 8. Work
Chapter 9. Animals
Chapter 10. Marie
Chapter 11. Caterina
Chapter 12. Margherita
Chapter 13. Martin
Chapter 14. Twenty-five Years On
Ethnographer's Epilogue
Cast of Characters
Glossary
References
Index