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 Bourdieu's 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 anthropologist's 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
About the Author: Vincenzo Matera is Full Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology in the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus), Italy.
Angela Biscaldi is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milano, Italy.
