In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic
practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the
challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings
of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These
challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social
anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history,
sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as
well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline.
Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced
by current institutional contexts and historical "traditions"
across a range of settings. Here ethnography is featured less as a
methodological "tool-box" or technique but rather as a subject on
which to reflect.
Marit Melhuus is Professor of social anthropology at the
University of Oslo. Her earlier work has been on issues of gender,
morality and change in Latin America, and her publications include
"Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas. Contesting the Power of Latin
American Gender Imagery" (co-edited with Kristi Anne Stolen, Verso,
1996). Her current research concerns biotechnology, kinship, and
law, and she has published numerous articles on these questions.
Recent publications include "Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies
of Truth and Belonging" (co-edited with Marianne Lien, Berghahn,
2007) and "La Norvege, vues de l'interieur, " a special issue of
Ethnologie francaise (jointly edited with Sophie Chevalier and
Marianne Lien, 2009).
Jon P. Mitchell is Reader in anthropology at the University of
Sussex. His main ethnographic research was conducted in Malta,
covering themes of ritual and religion, politics and the state,
history, memory and modernity, and popular culture. His
publications include "Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the
Public Sphere in Malta" (Routledge, 2002), "Powers of Good and
Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief" (jointly edited
with Paul Clough, Berghahn, 2002), "Modernity in the Mediterranean"
(edited special issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2002),
"Human Rights in Global Perspective" (jointly edited with Richard
Ashby Wilson, Routledge, 2003). His current research focuses on the
religious origins of secular charity.
Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm
University. Her research interests focus on expressive forms of
culture in a transnational perspective, with a recent interest in
writing and Irish literature as cultural process and form. Among
her latest publications are "Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and
Mobility in Ireland" (2008, Berghahn), "The Emotions: A Cultural
Reader" (editor, 2007, Berg), and "Ballet across Borders: Career
and Culture in the World of Dancers" (Berg, 1998, reprinted 2001).
She is also Editor of "Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, "
the Journal of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists."
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