2004/01/01 by Maximilian C. Forte, Forte, Maximilian C.
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Anthropologie #Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture #Dauer #Ethnographie #Feldforschung #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #anthropology #duration #ethnography #field research
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Chronicling Cultures provides readers with detailedcase histories of ethnographic projects that are longtermin duration, lasting decades in some cases and ofteninvolving multiple collaborators and new generations of researchers.The central theme of the text is that extendedtime spent in the field leads to both qualitative and quantitativetransformations in research. Contributors to the volumeexamine these transformations with respect to the data gatheringprocess, the theoretical outcomes of long-term research,the impacts on host communities and the manyproblems and benefits of spending extended time in thefield through multiple revisits and restudies. The volumewill be of especial interest to those interested in the historyof anthropology and to a lesser degree those interested infield methods. Amongst the shortcomings of the volume areits somewhat loose thematic organization, the overly descriptive nature of many of the contributions, the narrowrange of cases selected and the lack of diverse perspectives.