Publication

2019 - Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

43,500 words, Guess

Page Count

174 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781789203394
  • ISBN-101789203392
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019034512
  • OCLC Control Number1119742111
  • Better World Books9781789203394
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Classifications

  • LCCDG975.B385 W35 2020

Description

"In Sometime Kin Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this, journal extracts show 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 significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed; that the challenges of multi-vocality and 'truth' are always with us; and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise"--

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