Ethnography : A Theoretically Oriented Practice

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Theoretically Oriented Practice

Part I: Grounds for sociocultural anthropology: USA, UK, FR, IT

Chapter 2: Ethnography before ethnography. Genesis and developments of field research in North America

Chapter 3: Before and after Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British social anthropology and the problem of the relatiionship between fieldwork methods, ethnography and theory

Chapter 4: "Ethnography in France". Ethnographic practices and theories from Marcel Mauss to Marcel Griaule

Chapter 5: The Structural Formula of the Team. Reflections on the Ethnographic Method of Ernesto de Martino

Part II. Anthropology (Theory) vs Ethnography (Fieldwork)

Chapter 6: Illusion of immediate knowledge (immediacy) or spiritual exercise? The dialogic exchange and the Pierre Bourdieus ethnography

Chapter 7: "A conspiracy of silence" George Balandier and the study of African slavery and post-slavery

Chapter 8: The Bridge and the Dance: Situational Analysis in Anthropology

Chapter 9: Politics within Cultural and Social Anthropology

Chapter 10: Stumbling blocks. The irruption of the interpretive approach in twentieth century anthropology

Part III. Visual, Dialogical, Sensorial, Multi-sited ethnography

Chapter 11: The anthropologists eye: Ethnography, visual practices, images

Chapter 12: Dennis and Barbara Tedlock. The dialogic turn in anthropology

Chapter 13: Embodiment and Ethnography

Chapter 14: Exploring Mobility through Mobility. The Challenges of Multi-sited Ethnography from Marcus and Hannerz to nowadays

Part IV: Deconstructions

Chapter 15: Participant observation. The personal commitment in native life: A problematic methodological topos

Chapter 16: The Weberian line of anthropology: George E. Marcus from Writing Culture to Design

Chapter 17: Making the Invisible ethnography Visible. The peculiar relationship between Italian anthropology and feminism

Chapter 18: Beyond the field: literature, theory and ethnographic writing