Ethnography in Today's World: Color Full Before Color Blind

Roger Sanjek

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

Ethnography in Today's World

Color Full Before Color Blind

Roger Sanjek

In the series Haney Foundation Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208764

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About this book

In Ethnography in Today's World, anthropologist Roger Sanjek addresses the essential practice and purpose of ethnography in ethnically diverse settings. Drawing on decades of globe-spanning fieldwork, he examines how ethnographic fieldwork is and can be conceived, conducted, and communicated in today's interconnected world.

Author / Editor information

Roger Sanjek is a J. I. Staley Prize winner, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and the author and editor of many books, including Gray Panthers, which is also available from University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, Race (edited with Steven Gregory), and The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.

Reviews

"Ethnography in Today's World shows its author's admirable combination of personal commitments, curiosity about real human lives, intellectual integrity, and long-term scholarly overview. For anyone interested in anthropology as a complicatedly evolving, living research tradition, with its own tendencies always in interaction with a changing world, this is an important book to read."—Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University

"Roger Sanjek is a distinguished sociocultural anthropologist whose vision of anthropology has shaped the field in significant ways. Ethnography in Today's World is part history of ideas, part memoir, part cultural criticism, and all affirmation of ethnography's particular value for anyone trying to navigate the turbulent cross-currents of social knowledge-making in the United States today."—Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Part I. Engaging Ethnography
Chapter 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2. The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in Queens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3. What Ethnographies Leave Out Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Part II. Ethnography, Past and Present
Chapter 4. Ethnography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 5. Anthropology’s Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chapter 6. The Ethnographic Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Part III. Comparison and Contextualization
Chapter 7. Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political Activism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 8. Intermarriage and the Future of Races in America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 9. Rethinking Migration, Ancient to Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part IV. Ethnography and Society
Chapter 10. Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural Things Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 11. Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Chapter 12. Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of Ethnography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

eBook

Published: November 14, 2013
ISBN: 9780812208764