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An attempt at exhausting a place in Shetland: (field)notes from a (very) small island.
- Source :
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Anthropology & Humanism . Sep2024, p1. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In what follows, I outline the possibility of directly applying Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (2010) to the practice of ethnography. Based on 2 weeks of anthropological fieldwork on the remote Shetland Island of Foula, I attempt a translation of Perec's careful observations of an urban square in Paris in the 1970s into the context of an ethnography in this remote, rural location. After outlining the connections between Perec's book and my work as an anthropologist, I provide readers with my “raw” field notes so that they might then draw out their own analysis in the same way that I believe Perec intended his work to be understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ETHNOLOGY
*ANTHROPOLOGISTS
*EVERYDAY life
*ISLANDS
*POSSIBILITY
*FIELD research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15599167
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Anthropology & Humanism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179762472
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12531