Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and Art

by Susan Ossman

Book Overview

Reflecting on fieldwork for the twenty-first century, anthropologist and artist Susan Ossman invites readers on a journey across North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She reveals that fieldwork today is not only about being immersed in a place or culture; instead, it is an active way of focusing attention and engendering encounters and experiences. She conceives a new kind of autoethnography, making art and ethnography equal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350128090
• ISBN13: 9781350128095
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"