Ethnography Is Contemporary History
Ethnography Is Contemporary History
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
The claim that “ethnography is contemporary history” is often dismissed as a truism. Yet this seemingly obvious proposition has been profoundly destabilized by postmodern critiques that expose ethnography’s inherent “fabrication”—its poetics and politics. …
The claim that “ethnography is contemporary history” is often dismissed as a truism. Yet this seemingly obvious proposition has been profoundly destabilized by postmodern critiques that expose ethnography’s inherent “fabrication”—its poetics and politics. …