Ethnography through thick and thin in searchworks catalog. The comparison of thick and thin intermediate wafer in maxillary le fort i osteotomies. Using the example of a focused ethnography conducted to study nurses work experiences, this article will demonstrate how particular research questions, the attributes of certain cultural groups, and the unique characteristics of specific researchers compel adaptations in ethnography that address the need for methodological evolution while. The corn wolf, taussig university of chicago press. It will be of interest to academics and students across the social sciences but is particularly directed towards. Ethnography through thick and thin princeton university press ethnohistory by george e. The idea of the nervous system proposed decades ago has served him well as the. Ethnography through thick and thin updates and advances that. Ethnography through thick and thin university of kent. To speak of an ethnography of globalization, even in the contemporary global age, seems to be quite a contradiction in terms. George marcus, author of ethnography through thick and thin lila abulughod with a deft touch and an unlikely muse anton chekhov, this consummate writer and reader of ethnographies has turned her deep appreciation of the craft and its promise into a gift for. Ethnography through thick and thin, ethnohistory 10.
Research in anthropology that has embedded ethnographic subjects of study within. Ethnography through thick and thin princeton university press. Ethnography through thick and thin ethnohistory duke. In the 1980s, george marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book writing culture, which he coedited with james clifford. Interpretive reflexivity in ethnography paul lichterman.
The course focuses on the theories and methods of mediasensory ethnography, visual culture, media archeology, through the linked topics of transcultural and translocal processes, diaspora identities, the post colonial and human rights. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. In and out of morocco university of minnesota press. Postcolonial anthropology and the violence of abstraction. Ethnography through thick and thin ethnography through thick and thin gabbert, wolfgang 20000701 00. Ethnography through thick and thin george e marcus bok. Whereas the sociology and anthropology of globalization have. George marcus, author of ethnography through thick and thin tags.
Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. Ethnography through thick and thin free download as pdf file. Executive summary algorithms have been essential to business since long before artificial intelligence. Ethnography two decades after writing culture poetry. Date 1998 publisher princeton university press pub place princeton, n.
The first part will explore how greek ethnography came to be defined in. Farnoush mohammadi, naghmeh bahrami, aref darvishi. Many say this predicament demands the researchers selfreflexivity about ethnographic claims. Ethnography through thick and thin princeton university. Where theory work is done in the production of contemporary. But next time, professor, try to cut out the fat and streamline your writing a wee bit, for the benefit of the unwashed noneggheads like me. Pdf through thick and thin download full pdf book download. Ethnography through thick and thin pdf ethnography through thick and thin princeton university press ethnohistory by george e. Ethnography through thick and thin university of essex. An ethnographic study of culture in the context of. He examines, in particular, how the disciplines central practice of ethnography has been changed by multisited approaches to.
Marcus, g 1998 ethnography through thick and thin, princeton. Ethnography through thick and thin myers 2000 american anthropologist. Still, ethnography through thick and thin makes a valuable contribution to the field of anthropology, and i hope marcuss message is heard and taken to heart by his colleagues. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Some ethnographic researchers have suggested updating their research methodology through the use of photographs, films and even the latest writings, social media, like skype and email exchanges. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. Ethnography through thick and thin george e marcus. Many would argue that ethnographic knowledge claims are partial. George marcus, author of ethnography through thick and thin another great volume by taussig, which we have come to expect almost annually as his late career unfolds with vitality, ingenuity, and surpriseswith the storytelling voice, finally, of a marlowe. Ethnography through thick and thin ebook, 1998 worldcat. Anthropology, cultural criticism, political science every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of moroccan. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
To do so, they focus on such topics as ethnography, anthropologists. This article is concerned with the literal and metaphoric senses in which anthropologys accumulation of knowledge through the production of ethnography on the worlds peoples can be considered an archive. Ethnography through thick and thin updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Ethnography through thick and thin ethnography anthropology. Proposed by george marcus and popularized in ethnography through thick and thin, this method describes following ethnographic themes beyond a single geographic area or field location. Theorizing empathy in social justice movements roads less traveled in middle east anthropologyand new paths in gender ethnography related topics. Theyre using ethnographic tools to create humancentered algorithms and the new context is making a difference. With the help of anton chekhov, her muse and obsession, narayan does. The emergence of the transnational federation of couriers. In anthropology and the politics of representation volume editor gabriela vargascetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, and personal implications of their own work. Buy ethnography through thick and thin 1st pb edition by marcus, george e. Making ai work in the real world organizations arent just talking about artificial intelligence. Ethnography, understood as fieldwork and the writing that it engenders, has been the key research method of cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnography through thick and thin article in american anthropologist 1021.
This anthropologist gained access through local gatekeepers, developed rapport, and delicately negotiated leaving the field in her study of. Multisited research msr is designed around chains, paths, threads, conjunctions, or juxtapositions of locations in which the ethnographer establishes some form of literal, physical presence, with an explicit, posited logic of association or connection among sites that in fact defines. Marcus date 1998 publisher princeton university press pub place princeton, n. An ethnographic study of culture in the context of organizational change loizos heracleous national university of singapore the author employed an ethnographic research approach, combined with a clinical element, to explore the nature and role of culture in the context of organizational change. A creative and valuable book, in and out of morocco successfully transforms the framework in which the traditional ethnographic study of a locale is written. What is more, according to the critics, the ethnographer. Greek ethnography through thick and thin this paper will argue that greek ethnography typically defined as the scientific prose study of barbarians by greeks was actually far more lively and diverse than might previously have been imagined. Because of this, ethnographic observations must rely on the context of the population being studied by understanding how the participants come to recognize actions in relation to one another and to the overall structure of the society in a specific place and time.