Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive

by Johannes Fabian

The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropological practice, argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342839
• ISBN13: 9780822342830
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.7"