Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers Of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 (Easa Series, 44)

At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention. Instead of reproducing the hasty judgment that earlier ethnographies were miscellaneous compilations of odds and ends, we should reassess them with an open mind, each account containing layers of meaning, style, and content that inspire new readings.

• | Author: Frederico Delgado Rosa|Han F. Vermeulen
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 540 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1800735316
• | ISBN-13: 9781800735316