Objects and Objections of Ethnography

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The essays in this volume, in all their astonishing richness and diversity, focus on the question of the ?other.? Brimming with whole flotillas of new ideas, they delineate subtle and various ways in which that question can be made the basis of an ethnographic project. In them, the author responds to the invitations extended by a specific location rather than pursuing a codified method. And they examine many different socialities in many different locations?among them the Cornell University campus in the late seventies, the former Musée de l?Homme and the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the Indonesian province of Aceh in the wake of the tsunami of 2004, and contemporary Indonesia, in the liminal figures of the Jew and the Chinese. The author meticulously traces how the social and cultural responses in each location are astonishingly different?in the form, say, of gorges, faces, garbage, and...

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