Mementos, Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415935458 ISBN 13: 9780415935456

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore, this volume contains personal, imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly context, yet are a vital part of research. Some pieces are engaging autobiographical accounts of ethnographers' experiences in the field, while others are fictional narratives. These tales take readers to a range of locales, offering richly detailed portraits of informants, local cultures, and life in the field.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Emoff is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Ohio State University, Newark. David Henderson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at St. Lawrence University.

Review:

"Resonant, provocative, and genre-bending, these pieces capture - and at times engender anew for readers - those moments of recognition, misrecognition, and indeterminacy frequent in ethnographic engagement. A lively and significant contribution and one that raises questions of real consequence with elan and principled imagination.."
-Don Brenneis, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
"What most recommends [this] is the quality and care with which the individual contributions have been produced.there is not a weak or superfluous piece among them.."
-George Marcus, Rice University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415935458
• ISBN 13: 9780415935456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Emoff Ron, Henderson David