Time and the Field
Published on 1. November 2015
166 pages
978-1-78533-088-9 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.
Reviews / Votes
"...deserves to be read; above all by advanced students who are preparing for fieldwork." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)"Time and the Field is an original and colorful collection of articles, approaching the overall topic from various perspectives, all illustrated with vivid accounts from the field. They cover a broad range of issues and comprehension, from reflections on methodology, descriptions of specific temporalities over theoretical experimentations (surfacing, trans-temporal hinges) to analysis about temporal constituencies of the ethnographic field... The book is surely a valuable inspiration for young anthropologists preparing their first fieldwork as well as for experienced fieldworkers motivating them to look at their data and practice from a different, time-inspired angle." * Anthropos
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Index; 1 Figures
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-088-9 (9781785330889)
DOI
10.3167/9781785330872
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Steffen Dalsgaard | Morten Nielsen
Time and the Field
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Persons
Steffen Dalsgaard is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is currently deputy chair of the Young Academy of Denmark. Among his recent publications are articles in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Anthropology, Environment and Society, and Social Analysis.
Content
Introduction: Time and the Field
Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen
Chapter 1. Limits and Limitlessness: Exploring Time in Scientific Practice
Antonia Walford
Chapter 2. The Time of the State and the Temporality of the Gavman in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
Steffen Dalsgaard
Chapter 3. Out of Conclusion: On Recurrence and Open-Endedness in Life and Analysis
Anne Line Dalsgaard and Martin Demant Frederiksen
Chapter 4. Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Ton Otto
Chapter 5. Surfacing Moves: Spatial-Timings of Senior Home Care
Peter A. Lutz
Chapter 6. Boredom, Rhythm, and the Temporality of Ritual: Recurring Fieldwork in the Brazilian Candomble
Inger Sjorslev
Chapter 7. Episodic Fieldwork, Updating, and Sociability
Michael Whyte
Chapter 8. Trans-temporal Hinges: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia
Morten Axel Pedersen and Morten Nielsen
Afterword: Ethnography between the Virtue of Patience and the Anxiety of Belatedness Once Coevalness Is Embraced
George Marcus
Index
Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen
Chapter 1. Limits and Limitlessness: Exploring Time in Scientific Practice
Antonia Walford
Chapter 2. The Time of the State and the Temporality of the Gavman in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
Steffen Dalsgaard
Chapter 3. Out of Conclusion: On Recurrence and Open-Endedness in Life and Analysis
Anne Line Dalsgaard and Martin Demant Frederiksen
Chapter 4. Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Ton Otto
Chapter 5. Surfacing Moves: Spatial-Timings of Senior Home Care
Peter A. Lutz
Chapter 6. Boredom, Rhythm, and the Temporality of Ritual: Recurring Fieldwork in the Brazilian Candomble
Inger Sjorslev
Chapter 7. Episodic Fieldwork, Updating, and Sociability
Michael Whyte
Chapter 8. Trans-temporal Hinges: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia
Morten Axel Pedersen and Morten Nielsen
Afterword: Ethnography between the Virtue of Patience and the Anxiety of Belatedness Once Coevalness Is Embraced
George Marcus
Index
