Sometime Kin: Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

by Sandra Wallman

In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789203392
• ISBN13: 9781789203394
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"