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标题：That's enough about ethnography!
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作者：Tim Ingold
期刊名称：HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory
电子版ISSN：2049-1115
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：383-395
DOI：10.14318/hau4.1.021
语种：English
出版社：HAU-N.E.T
摘要：Ethnography has become a term so overused, both in anthropology and in contingent disciplines, that it has lost much of its meaning. I argue that to attribute “ethnographicness” to encounters with those among whom we carry on our research, or more generally to fieldwork, is to undermine both the ontological commitment and the educational purpose of anthropology as a discipline, and of its principal way of working—namely participant observation. It is also to reproduce a pernicious distinction between those with whom we study and learn, respectively within and beyond the academy. Anthropology’s obsession with ethnography, more than anything else, is curtailing its public voice. The way to regain it is through reasserting the value of anthropology as a forward-moving discipline dedicated to healing the rupture between imagination and real life.
关键词：correspondence, education, ethnography, fieldwork, method, participant observation, theory