Dis/working with Diagrams

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2019.630403

N. Bird-David

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Standard diagrammatic tools in ethnographies, locational maps, and kinship trees are supposed to help make fieldwork and its findings intelligible to readers. This article explores how, to the contrary, they obscure locals’ lived worlds and the fieldwork process when they are used cross-culturally and cross-scalarly in studies of minuscule indigenous societies, anthropology’s traditional study subject. I draw on my experience of producing and using these visuals, from fieldwork through to writing ethnography, in my work with foragers who live in South India in order to show the effect of these diagrammatic tools on our understanding of nanoscale communities and their intimate worlds.

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民族志中的标准图解工具、位置地图和亲属树应该有助于读者理解田野调查及其发现。相反，本文探讨的是，当它们被跨文化和跨尺度地用于研究微小的土著社会(人类学的传统研究主题)时，它们是如何模糊了当地人的生活世界和田野调查过程的。在我与南印度的采集者的工作中，我利用我制作和使用这些视觉效果的经验，从田野调查到撰写人种志，以展示这些图解工具对我们理解纳米级社区及其亲密世界的影响。

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来源期刊

Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

发文量

审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.