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Contemporary Ethnographies: Moorings, Methods, and Keys for the Future book cover

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Contemporary Ethnographies Moorings, Methods, and Keys for the Future

By Francisco Ferrándiz Copyright 2020
238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Contemporary Ethnographies is a call to use ethnography in imaginative ways, adjusting to rapidly evolving social circumstances. It is based on a reflexive and theoretically grounded exploration of the author’s two main research projects – the study of the spiritist possession cult of María Lionza in Venezuela, and the analysis of the contemporary exhumation of Civil War (1936–1939) mass graves... Read more

PART ONE: INTO THE LABYRINTH

1.1. Starting out
1.2. On ethnography                                                                                                                                        1.3. Scientific, hermeneutic and collaborative paradigms in anthropology                                                             1.4. Brief history of fieldwork methods in anthropology and some classic examples

PART TWO: ETHNOGRAPHIES IN FLOW

2.1. Designing the research
2.2. Fieldwork as a methodological situation
2.3. Where to go?
2.4. Landings
2.5. Considering participant observation
2.6. On informants or interlocutors
2.7. Conversing, listening, interviewing and keeping quiet
2.8. Stories and itineraries of the body
2.9. Ethnography, audio-visual techniques and media, and new digital ecologies
2.10. Farewell to the field
2.11. Writing ethnography

PART THREE: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

3.1. Globalization: evolving research scenarios
3.2. Walking the tight rope: transnational research and ‘multi-sited’ ethnography
3.3. The ethnography of shock: violence, conflict, and social suffering
3.3.1. From everyday violence…
3.3.2. ...to postconflict research

Biography

Francisco Ferrándiz is a tenured senior researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain). He has a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from UC Berkeley. He has been actively engaged in public anthropology and the analysis of both grassroots and institutional memory politics in Spain and Europe. He is co-editor of Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights (2015).

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