“This innovative book about ethnography as knowledge provokes in all the right ways. Packed with concrete and creative suggestions for doing, writing, and teaching ethnography well beyond anthropology, <i>Experimenting with Ethnography</i> offers thoughtful inspiration for anyone seeking to sharpen their analytical skills.”

- Carole McGranahan, editor of, Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment

“Along with much else, analysis is at risk today, as it is equated with actionable findings, tempting us to bracket everything that's confusing. What to do? Let this stunning gathering of anthropologists surprise, puzzle, and enlighten you: their work opens up an altogether different mode of analysis, one that expands the range of incompatibilities that can be held together in thought, a critical competence for anyone committed to knowing and acting in and with, not merely of and on, our world.”

- Noortje Marres, author of, Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research

<p>"Invaluable. Any qualitative researchers, not just ethnographers, would benefit from the practical, hands-on protocols, as well as the imaginative and diverse projects the authors reference. No other book I have come across offers more stimulating and practical guidance on undertaking analysis of ethnographic material."</p>

- Emily Zimbrick-Rogers, Practical Theology

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<p>"I was continually inspired as I read through this collection of essays and heartened by the willingness of the authors to reveal the inner workings of how ethnographic analysis may unfold. I highly recommend <i>Experimenting with Ethnography </i>to anyone who already has a hunch that ethnographic analysis is not an endpoint but rather a stop along the way."</p>

- Christine Hegel, Anthropos

“The book stands out as one of the most enjoyable volumes I have ever encountered on ethnographic analysis. It undoubtedly serves as an outstanding ‘unruly companion’ to keep close at hand for anyone with an interest in anthropological thinking.”

- Fulya Pinar, American Ethnologist

Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers. Contributors. Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Andrea Ballestero, Ivan da Costa Marques, Steffen Dalsgaard, Endre Dányi, Marisol de la Cadena, Marianne de Laet, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Clément Dréano, Joseph Dumit, Melanie Ford Lemus, Elaine Gan, Oliver Human, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Graham M. Jones, Trine Mygind Korsby, Justine Laurent, James Maguire, George E. Marcus, Annemarie Mol, Sarah Pink, Els Roding, Markus Rudolfi, Ulrike Scholtes, Anthony Stavrianakis, Lucy Suchman, Katie Ulrich, Helen Verran, Else Vogel, Antonia Walford, Karen Waltorp, Laura Watts, Brit Ross Winthereik  
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An indispensable guide for all ethnographers, Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that offer concrete suggestions for thinking about and doing ethnographic research and writing.
Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Analysis as Experimental Practice / Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik  1 Part I. Bodily Practices and Relocations 1. Tactile Analytics: Touching as a Collective Act / Patricia Alvarez Astacio  15 2. The Ethnographic Hunch / Sarah Pink  30 3. The Para-Site in Ethnographic Research Projects / George E. Marcus  41 4. Juxtaposition: Differences That Matter / Else Vogel  53 Part II. Physical Objects 5. Relocating Innovation: Postcards from Three Edges / Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, and Laura Watts  69 6. Object Exchange / Trine Mygind Korsby and Anthony Stavrianakis  82 7. Drawing as Analysis: Thinking in Images, Writing in Words / Rachel Douglas-Jones 94 8. Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible / Elaine Gan  108 Part III. Infrastructural Play 9. Ethnographic Drafts and Wild Archives / Alberto Corsín Jiménez  123 10. Multimodal Sorting: The Flow of Images across Social Media and Anthropological Analysis / Karen Waltorp  133 11. Categorize, Recategorize, Repeat / Graham M. Jones  151 12. Sound Recording as Analytic Technique / Brit Ross Winthereik and James Maguire  163 Part IV. Incommensurabilities 13. Substance as Method (Shaking Up Your Practice) / Joseph Dumit  175 14. Excreting Variously: On Contrasting as an Analytic Technique / Justine Laurent, Oliver Human, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Els Roding, Ulrike Scholtes, Marianne de Laet, and Annemarie Mol  186 15. Facilitating Breakdowns through the Exchange of Perspectives / Steffen Dalsgaard  198 16. Analogy / Antonia Walford  209 17. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices / Ivan da Costa Marques  219 18. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working toward Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Troubles / Helen Verran  235 19. Not Knowing: In the Presence of . . . / Marisol de la Cadena  246 Afterword 1. Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making / Melanie Ford Lemus and Katie Ulrich  257 Afterword 2. Where Would You Put This Volume? On Thinking with Unruly Companions in the Middle of Things / Clément Dréano and Markus Rudolfi  262 References  267 Contributors  287 Index  295
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“This innovative book about ethnography as knowledge provokes in all the right ways. Packed with concrete and creative suggestions for doing, writing, and teaching ethnography well beyond anthropology, Experimenting with Ethnography offers thoughtful inspiration for anyone seeking to sharpen their analytical skills.”
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ISBN
9781478011996
Publisert
2021-06-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Biographical note

Andrea Ballestero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of A Future History of Water, also published by Duke University Press. She also directs The Ethnography Studio.

Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Ethnography at the IT University of Copenhagen and coauthor of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures.