In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography through Thick and Thin updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus…
An anthropologist finds herself becoming totally immersed in the primitive Indian culture of the Iticoteri tribe who have adopted her.
This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa …
Since the concept of 'multi-sited' approaches in ethnography developed over a decade ago, it has attracted a growing number of reseachers across the social sciences. This volume examines the evolution of the concept as well as the problems and possibilities multi-sited approache…