Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork

by Allaine Cerwonka, Liisa H. Malkki, Liisa H Malkki

Book Overview

Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226100316
• ISBN13: 9780226100319
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 6.1"