Out of the Study and Into the Field

Out of the Study and Into the Field
Author :
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 307
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781845458430
ISBN-13 : 1845458435
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Out of the Study and Into the Field by : Robert Parkin

Download or read book Out of the Study and Into the Field written by Robert Parkin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generally skeptical of theory. While there are contrasts between the two traditions, this is essentially a false view. It is this aspect of French anthropology that this collection addresses, in the belief that the neglect of many of these figures outside France is seriously distorting our view of the French tradition of anthropology overall. At the same time, the collection will provide a positive view of the French tradition of ethnography, stressing its combination of technical competence and the sympathies of its practitioners for its various ethnographic subjects.


Out of the Study and Into the Field Related Books

Out of the Study and Into the Field
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Robert Parkin
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselve
Failing in the Field
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Dean Karlan
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach—and how to avoid them All across the social sciences,
Field Study
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Chet'la Sebree
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-01 - Publisher: FSG Originals

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vuln
The Field Study in Social Psychology
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Tomasz Grzyb
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-08 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This unique book offers a comprehensive introduction to field studies as a research method in social psychology, demonstrating that field studies are an importa
Field Study
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Helen Humphreys
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-21 - Publisher: ECW Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no ma