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Hello Jamie and list-members,
I am also interested in the issue Jamie raised and I assume there are
others as well, so it would be very helpful if people replied on the list.
many thanks, Simona
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:37 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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