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Dear all,
other books that could be relevant for this topic are:
a classic monograph by Abner Cohen. 1965. Arab border-villages in Israel,
Manchester, Manchester University Press.
a book written by an anthropologist whose argument draws heavily on
analysis of historical events:
Murray Li, Tania. 2007. The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development,
and the Practice of Politics, Duke University Press.
A book edited by historians:
Grandits, Hannes. & Taylor, Karin. 2010. Yugoslavia's sunny side. Central
European University Press
Another relevant classic on this issue is Eric Wolf.
There was also a whole tradition of Eastern European ethnologies until
1990s which almost solely relied on diachronic perspective. A good overview
of this approach can be found in a PhD thesis:
Michael Sozan. 1977. *The History of Hungarian Ethnography*, Washington,
D.C.: University Press of America
Thank you all for the useful and interesting references!
Best,
Carna
Carna Brkovic
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:37 PM, James Furniss
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I would be really grateful if anyone has references they could share of
> 'diachronic ethnographies' or ethnography that is not merely interested in
> the fieldwork 'present' but also goes back in time. My objective is to be
> able to justify using archives and going back in time as 'anthropology' in
> the proper sense. On what basis can someone adopting such approaches claim
> to be doing anthropology? What would would anthropology's 'value-added' be
> here? What is different from when done by a historian?
>
> I am thinking of examples like Emily Martin's Flexible Bodies (1995) where
> she looks at Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the
> 1940s, and at different locations in American society. Another different
> type of example would be Paul Dresch's Tribes, Government and History in
> Yemen (1989) where he tacks back in forth between chapters based on
> fieldwork and narrated in the 'ethnographic present' and chapters which are
> historical and documentary.
>
> Probably best to reply off list and spare those who don't share this
> interest...
>
> With thanks!
>
> jamie
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