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David A. Westbrook

Navigators of the Contemporary

Why Ethnography Matters

160 pages,  6 x 9  © 2008

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ISBN: 9780226887517   Published November 2008

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ISBN: 9780226887524   Published November 2008

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Acknowledgements

I. Into the Present

     CHAPTER 1. The Venture
     CHAPTER 2. Culture Everywhere and Nowhere
     CHAPTER 3. Conversation as Another Kind of Solution
     CHAPTER 4. This Book and Other Books

II. An Ethnography for Present Situations

     CHAPTER 5. What?
     CHAPTER 6. Where?
     CHAPTER 7. Who?
     CHAPTER 8. When?
     CHAPTER 9. How?
     CHAPTER 10. Why?

III. In the University

     CHAPTER 11. Rupture and Continuity
     CHAPTER 12. Theory
     CHAPTER 13. Fieldwork
     CHAPTER 14. Writing
     CHAPTER 15. One Discipline among Others

IV. In the World

     CHAPTER 16. The Intellectual's Situation
     CHAPTER 17. The Imaginary and the Political
     CHAPTER 18. Ethnography and the Bureaucratic University
     CHAPTER 19. From Science to Romance
     CHAPTER 20. Reprise
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