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.
El estudio del territorio se ha llevado a cabo principalmente desde la perspectiva de la geografía y las ciencias sociales, siendo el punto común un enfoque que entiende el territorio como ...significación cultural a partir de las prácticas socioculturales. La propuesta de investigación es un estudio del territorio de influencia de la comunidad kawésqar de Puerto Edén desde un enfoque formal proveniente de la teoría literaria de los formalistas rusos a partir del reconocimiento de usos y ocupaciones dentro del territorio para establecer el sentido territorial según disposición de esos usos y ocupación y que produce, a su vez, el conocimiento sobre el mismo y su transformación cuando los elementos de los usos y ocupación cambian de función. Otro aspecto de esta perspectiva formal es el complemento con la Teoría del Actor Red (TAR) de Bruno Latour con la cual se amplía la comprensión de dichos elementos a agentes humanos y no-humanos como partes integrantes de los diversos usos y ocupación territorial. De esta forma, se busca comprender el manejo que una comunidad indígena como la kawésqar tiene de su área de influencia geográfica a partir del conocimiento que adquiere debido a su experiencia y observación de dicha área (conocimiento socioecológico), sin transformar el territorio en un producto simbólico que representa ciertas cualidades para la comunidad.
Scripting Addictiontakes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves ...and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs?
To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments, individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script."
As a clinical ethnography,Scripting Addictionexamines how decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic transactions--and by extension administrative routines and institutional dynamics--at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings."
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.
In China’s Xinjiang Province, narratives of counterterrorism and economic development have accompanied heightened regional and national securitization, including the detainment in “re-education ...camps” of over one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. Government language policies, technological surveillance, mass detentions, and homestay programmes intended to discipline Uyghurs into ideal political subjects enforce and transgress boundaries between the public and domestic spheres. These strategies of banal masked coercion reinforce norms of kinship and privacy while simultaneously enacting violent transgressive control over the subjects those norms produce. In this paper, I introduce the concept of “surveillance of intimate technologies” to convey how such surveillance strategies afford the creation and maintenance of the kinship relations they simultaneously betray. Intimate technologies such as smartphones become sites of sustaining both social ties and surveillance. Surveillance of intimate technologies also takes the form of government homestay campaigns to enlist over one million representatives of the Chinese state to enter Uyghur homes, act as “relatives”, and monitor Uyghurs for demonstrations of apparent extremism and subversion. I assert that surveillance of intimate technologies perpetuates fantasies of a private, removed, family space while also destabilizing its logics. These apparent perversions of kinship and family structures at once affirm their “valid” and normative modalities and also maintain the state’s appearance as a cohesive actor through demonstration of its reach into a constructed domestic domain.
Se presentan los resultados e interpretaciones vinculados al estudio acerca de ocupaciones de origen tardocolonial que tuvieron lugar en las quebradas de Antiguyoc y del Maray, ambas comprendidas ...dentro de la localidad arqueológica de Antiguyoc (región de Puna de Jujuy, República Argentina). Las investigaciones se llevaron a cabo con el objetivo general de aportar al conocimiento sobre modos de construir y habitar en asentamientos del período colonial ubicados en yacimientos mineros altoandinos. Para alcanzarlo se puso énfasis en el análisis de los remanentes arquitectónicos y se articularon los datos arqueológicos con fuentes históricas inéditas y etnográficas. El estudio permitió identificar las características y variabilidad de la arquitectura en ambos asentamientos y generar interpretaciones acerca de la conformación social y las prácticas de los grupos que ocuparon los diferentes sectores analizados.
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