Serendipity in anthropological research: the nomadic turn

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Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of studying them, each study producing its own questions and demanding its own methodologies.

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Full title :Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn / edited by Haim Hazan and Esther Hertzog.

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Publication Date:©2011.

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Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (xix, 332 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781409430599, 1409430596, 9781409430582, 1409430588, 1283367718, 9781283367714
oclc:ocn974320414
LC Classification:GN42
Dewey Decimal:301.072

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; IntroductionTowards a Nomadic Turn in Anthropology; Part I: Navigation; 1 Errancy in Ethnography and Theory: On the Meaning and Role of 'Discovery' in Anthropological Research; 2 The Growth of a Conception: Nomads and Cities; 3 Seductive Communities: On Non-representational Constructions; 5 Privileged and Volatile Nomadism; 6 Becoming a Triple Stranger: Autoethnography of a Kibbutznik's Long Journey to Discoveries of Researchers' Faults.

7 Some Cautionary Tales from an Anthropological Romance with Jews from Libya8 Moving Fieldwork: Ethnographic Experiences in the Israeli-Palestinian space; Part III: The Journey; 9 Spiritual Travels, Social Knowledge: Entering the Space of Tuareg Possession; 10 Flying Witches, Embodied Memories, and the Wanderings of an Anthropologist; 11 The Anthropologist as a Nomad in Dangerous Fields and the Emergence of Cultural Criminology; 12 The Straw in Anthropologists' Boots: Studying Nobility in Poland; Part IV: Wandering; 13 The Cosmopolitan Movement of the Global Guest.

14 Social Science under Siege: The Middle East15 The Suspicious Anthropologist: Documenti…

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