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Journal Article
Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography
1995
Overview
This review surveys an emergent methodological trend in anthropological
research that concerns the adaptation of long-standing modes of ethnographic
practices to more complex objects of study. Ethnography moves from its
conventional single-site location, contextualized by macro-constructions of a
larger social order, such as the capitalist world system, to multiple sites of
observation and participation that cross-cut dichotomies such as the \"local\"
and the \"global,\" the \"lifeworld\" and the \"system.\" Resulting ethnographies
are therefore both in and out of the world system. The anxieties to which this
methodological shift gives rise are considered in terms of testing the limits of
ethnography, attenuating the power of fieldwork, and losing the perspective of
the subaltern. The emergence of multi-sited ethnography is located within new
spheres of interdisciplinary work, including media studies, science and technology
studies, and cultural studies broadly. Several \"tracking\" strategies that
shape multi-sited ethnographic research are considered. The review concludes
with observations about the reflexive persona of the ethnographer as \"circumstantial
activist\" in which methodological discussions about multi-sited research
in anthropology are now being developed.
Publisher
Annual Reviews,Annual Reviews Inc,Annual Reviews, Inc
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