If ethnography is more than participant-observation, then relations are more than connections: The case for nonlocal ethnography in a world of apparatuses

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-395

  Feldman, Gregory ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

apparatus; globalization; mediation; migration; nonlocal ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455171961     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499611429904     Document Type: Article

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