Framed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner, the volume includes contributions by Stephen Greenblatt, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., William H. Sewell, Jr., Natalie Zemon Davis, George E. Marcus, and Lila Abu-Lughod. The articles cover such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and "complicity" in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination of culture and history.
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Framed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner, the volume includes contributions by Stephen Greenblatt, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., William H. Sewell, Jr., Natalie Zemon Davis, George E. Marcus, and Lila Abu-Lughod. The articles cover such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and "complicity" in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination of culture and history.
Imprint | University of California Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Representations Books, 8 |
Release date | November 1999 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | November 1999 |
Editors | Sherry B. Ortner |
Dimensions | 254 x 178 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 176 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-21601-3 |
Barcode | 9780520216013 |
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LSN | 0-520-21601-6 |