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A Different Kind of Ethnography

Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies

edited by Denielle Elliott & Dara Culhane

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2016
Category
General, Cultural
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442636613
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $38.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442636620
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $67.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442636644
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $23.95

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Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from being fully present while engaging with the experience to analyzing representing, and communicating the results, with the hope of capturing different kinds of knowledge and experiences

 

The book is structured around various methodologies–sensing, walking, writing, performing, and recording—and includes innovative exercises that allow both seasoned and aspiring ethnographers to develop a practice that can deepen and extend ethnographic inquiry.

 

 

About the authors

Denielle Elliott is Assistant Professor in the Health and Safety Programme of the Department of Social Science at York University.

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Dara Culhane received her Ph.D. in 1994 and teaches anthropology at Simon Fraser University. From 1992 to 1994, she was Deputy Director of Social and Cultural Research for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Her first book, An Error in Judgement, probes the controversial 1979 death of a First Nations child who died of an undiagnosed ruptured appendix in Alert Bay, B.C. She continued her work with The Pleasure of the Crown, which offers an in-depth analysis of Aboriginal title litigation in British Columbia and examines the cultural values and biases of the courts from an anthropologist’s point of view. Culhane’s research has also appeared in BC Studies, Native Studies Review and The Journal of Human Justice.

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