Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology

ISBN: 0824822250

Author: Jaarsma, Dr Sjoerd R

Condition: Used

About the Author Sjoerd R. Jaarsma is a historian of the ethnography of West New Guinea and of late-colonial and present-day Papua New Guinea. He holds a doctorate in social sciences from Nijmegen University, The Netherlands. Marta A. Rohatynskyj is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Product Description An examination of anthropological practice and product. It identifies three domains in which ethnographic artefacts are given meaning: as text, as object, and as a historically-contrived representation of community in the public sphere. Review "A fine example of how the tide has turned in reflexive anthropology. It explores dilemmas of advocacy and identity politics in a world where the products of ethnographers' practice have an impact on what the ethnographer would want to consider as his or her data."