Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up
with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach.
The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that
ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in nature,
conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social
situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the
process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic research, they
demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our ways of knowing and
explaining them, are created and discovered in the give and take of
real life, in all its unpredictability and immediacy. Improvising
Theory centers on the year-long correspondence between Cerwonka, then
a graduate student in political science conducting research in
Australia, and her anthropologist mentor, Malkki. Through regular
e-mail exchanges, Malkki attempted to teach Cerwonka, then new to the
discipline, the basic tools and subtle intuition needed for
anthropological fieldwork. The result is a strikingly original
dissection of the processual ethics and politics of method in
ethnography.
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9780226100289
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2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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