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> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:28:19 -0000
> From: Clare Cottrell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: U.S. University Titles
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> Ethnography as Commentary
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> Writing from the Virtual Archive
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> Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam
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> "Johannes Fabian is one of the most prominent and original thinkers
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> anthropology. With Ethnography as Commentary, he makes a significant =
> contribution to debates about modes of writing in anthropology and =
> adjacent disciplines and to anthropological knowledge of
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> Central African culture and society. Younger scholars especially
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> find it a very instructive close-up portrayal of intensive
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> work."-Ulf Hannerz, author of Foreign News: Exploring the World of =
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> "Ethnography as Commentary is a timely contribution to contemporary =
> problems of anthropological knowledge-making. It is an argument
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> what ethnography has come to and an experiment about what it might
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> become more than two decades after the intense period of critiquing =
> anthropology's emblematic research practices."-George E. Marcus, =
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> The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials
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> which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically =
> archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the
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> his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a
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> theorist of anthropological practice, argues that virtual archives
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> the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the =
> monograph to commentary. In this insightful study, he returns to the =
> recording of a conversation he had with a ritual healer in the
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> town of Lubumbashi more than three decades ago. Fabian's transcript
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> translation of the exchange have been deposited on a website
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> and Popular Culture in Africa), and in Ethnography as Commentary he =
> provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive.
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> In his commentary, Fabian reconstructs his meeting with the healer =
> Kahenga Mukonkwa Michel, in which the two discussed the ritual that =
> Kahenga performed to protect Fabian's home from burglary. Fabian =
> reflects on the expectations and terminology that shape his
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> of Kahenga's ritual and meditates on how ethnographic texts are
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> considering the settings, the participants, the technologies, and
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> linguistic medium that influence the transcription and translation
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> recording and thus fashion ethnographic knowledge. Turning more
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> to Kahenga-as a practitioner, a person, and an ethnographic subject-
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> to the questions posed to him, Fabian reconsiders questions of
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> identity, politics, and religion. While Fabian hopes that emerging =
> anthropologists will share their fieldwork through virtual
> archives, he =
> does not suggest that traditional ethnography will disappear. It
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> become part of a broader project facilitated by new media.
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> Duke University Press
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> The Political Geographies of Pregnancy
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> Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina
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> "Neatly reviews many of the major dramas and dilemmas that, thirty
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> after the federalization of women's 'choice,' continue to bedevil =
> policymakers and ordinary people. But it also moved me, and will
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> Pregnancy indisputably takes place within a woman's body. But as =
> reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical =
> professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of
> pregnancy =
> are shifting, and the boundaries need to be redrawn, argues Laura R. =
> Woliver. The Political Geographies of Pregnancy is a vigorous
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> of the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing =
> debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, new =
> reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of
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> Across a politically charged backdrop of reproductive issues,
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> exposes strategies that claim to uphold the best interests of
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> families, and women but in reality complicate women's struggles to
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> control over their own bodies. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory
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> promoting a feminist ethic of care, Woliver looks at abortion
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> modern adoption laws that cater to male-headed families, regulations =
> that allow the state to monitor pregnant women but not always
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> care for them, and the power structures behind the seemingly benign =
> world of egg-selling and surrogate parenting. She also considers the =
> potentially staggering political implications of mapping the human =
> genome, and the exclusion of women's perspectives in discussions
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