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Sometime Kin : Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography / Sandra Wallman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789203394
  • 9781789203400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09 22
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 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 of Terms and Expressions -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 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 of Terms and Expressions -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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