Special Issue: Reason and Passion: The Parallel Worlds of Ethnography and Biography
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 3550
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Wiley
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29419/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- I contributed to this special issue with an individual contribution and an introduction written jointly with Janet Carsten and Charles Stafford. We drafted sections individually and met to discuss, revise and edit them iteratively into a coherent piece that met our research objectives. Each of us took an editorial role for a group of articles, myself for contributions by Andrew Beatty, Victoria Goddard and Kath Weston. Our collaboration was motivated by common research into the multiple connections between biographies (including but not only the anthropologist’s) that emerge to constitute an ethnographic field. We focused on the moral and political resonances of biographies and their transmission. Asking what is and is not transmitted across generations and across domains such as family or state, we argued, necessarily provides a historical depth to ethnographies. We raised these issues initially in a 2014 panel that we co-convened. The special issue includes articles subsequently developed by the majority of those we invited to present. It also includes two further articles, written by Janet Carsten and myself, in response to a need we perceived as editors to address how genres of biography and ethnography were simultaneously materialized through papers, photographs, other objects and also houses. My own contribution developed from two field trips to Ladakh (2015, 2017) and close collaboration with a colleague who related a biography through his Ladakhi house. It included sorting and analysing the materials with which we crafted this account such as photographs, documents and recordings. The article reflects my research collaboration with this colleague as well as with Carsten and Stafford, which brought a significant comparative dimension.
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