Other worlds /
The basic task of anthropologists and other social scientists doing ethnographic fieldwork is to try to enter, respectfully and with their hosts' permission and an open mind, the world of the "other." Researchers may attempt to observe and participate in that world; record, understand...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Mobilities, space and place.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The basic task of anthropologists and other social scientists doing ethnographic fieldwork is to try to enter, respectfully and with their hosts' permission and an open mind, the world of the "other." Researchers may attempt to observe and participate in that world; record, understand, and analyse it; and eventually communicate its ways and logic to those outside it in order to expand understanding of human sociocultural diversity. Sometimesmore often than one might thinkthe world of the other is not limited to this-worldly ideas and institutions, values, behavioural norms, and ways of seeing, being, and doing. Rather, the other's world involves an other world whose reality, power, and meaning may be as significant for people in the community as the everyday realities of this-worldly life. This other ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529745610 1529745616 9781526421036 1526421038 |