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001			https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30280
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020			_a/doi.org/10.1215/9780822381204
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024	7		_ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381204 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
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072		7	_aJHMC _2bicssc
100	1		_aFabian, Johannes _4auth
245	1	0	_aEthnography as Commentary : Writing from the Virtual Archive
260			_bDuke University Press _c2008
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aThe Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropological practice, argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. In this insightful study, he returns to the recording of a conversation he had with a ritual healer in the Congolese town of Lubumbashi more than three decades ago. Fabian’s transcript and translation of the exchange have been deposited on a website (Language and Popular Culture in Africa), and in Ethnography as Commentary he provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive.
536			_aKnowledge Unlatched
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography _2bicssc
653			_aSocial Science
653			_aAnthropology
653			_aCultural & Social
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43832/1/external_content.pdf _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30280 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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