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Improvising Theory (Paperback, New edition)
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Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up
with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to
teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is
that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in
nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable
social situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection
on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic
research, they demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our
ways of knowing and explaining them, are created and discovered in
the give and take of real life, in all its unpredictability and
immediacy.
"Improvising Theory" centers on the year-long correspondence
between Cerwonka, then a graduate student in political science
conducting research in Australia, and her anthropologist mentor,
Malkki. Through regular e-mail exchanges, Malkki attempted to teach
Cerwonka, then new to the discipline, the basic tools and subtle
intuition needed for anthropological fieldwork. The result is a
strikingly original dissection of the processual ethics and
politics of method in ethnography.
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