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Title

Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn / edited by Haim Hazan and Esther Hertzog.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Hazan, Haim
• Hertzog, Esther

Description

xix, 332 p.

Summary

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, 'Serendipity in anthropological research' explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of studying them, each study producing its own questions and demanding its own methodologies. Drawing together the latest research from a team of senior scholars from around the world to reflect on the experience of research, 'Serendipity in anthropological research' presents rich new case studies from Europe and the Middle East to examine both new and old questions in novel and enriching ways. An engaging examination of methodology and anthropological fieldwork, this book will appeal to all those concerned with writing ethnography.

Subject

• Bedouins > Israel
• Anthropology > Research > Israel
• Ethnology > Israel
• Anthropology > Research
• Anthropology > Philosophy
• Serendipity > Philosophy

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Towards a nomadic turn in anthropology / Haim Hazan, Esther Hertzog -- Errancy in ethnography and theory : on the meaning and role of 'discovery' in anthropological research / Ugo Fabietti -- The growth of a conception : nomads and cities / Emanuel Marx -- Seductive communities : on non-representational constructions / Haim Hazan -- Israeli soldiers, Japanese children : fieldwork and the dynamics of participant-observation and reflection / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Privileged and volatile nomadism / Shifra Kisch -- Becoming a triple stranger : autoethnography of a kibbutznik's long journey to discoveries of researchers' faults / Reuven Shapira -- Some cautionary tales from an anthropological romance with Jews from Libya / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Moving fieldwork : ethnographic experiences in the Israeli-Palestinian space / Cédric Parizot -- Spiritual travels, social knowledge : entering the space of Tuareg possession / Susan Rasmussen -- Flying witches, embodied memories, and the wanderings of an anthropologist / Raquel Romberg -- The anthropologist as a nomad in dangerous fields and the emergence of cultural criminology / Dina Siegel -- The straw in anthropologists' boots : studying nobility in Poland / Longina Jakubowska -- The cosmopolitan movement of the global guest / Nigel Rapport -- Social science under siege : the Middle East / Dale F. Eickelman -- The suspicious anthropologist : documenting my mother's Holocaust / Esther Hertzog -- The significance of colours in pastoral Bedouin society / Aref Abu-Rabi'a -- The structure of Bedouin society in the Negev : Emanuel Marx's Bedouin of the Negev revisited / Frank H. Stewart -- Bones of contention / Alex Weingrod -- Through the kaleidoscope : looking back at prison / Ofra Greenberg.

ISBN

• 9781409430582 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781409430599 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011028483

OCLC

• 746315984
• SCSB-11324119

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library