Ethnographic Encounters in Israel : Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork 9780253008893, 9780253008565

Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its c

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Ethnographic Encounters in Israel : Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork
9780253008893, 9780253008565

Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are diff

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This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don’t know much

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Flinn Juliana : Juliana Flinn is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.Juliana Flinn i

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For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issu

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Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangsha

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This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the

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Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining

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Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures&quo

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Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as

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