false 250000 1 <div><div>Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic research, they demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our ways of knowing and explaining them, are created and discovered in the give and take of real life, in all its unpredictability and immediacy.<br><br><i>Improvising Theory</i> centers on the year-long correspondence between Cerwonka, then a graduate student in political science conducting research in Australia, and her anthropologist mentor, Malkki. Through regular e-mail exchanges, Malkki attempted to teach Cerwonka, then new to the discipline, the basic tools and subtle intuition needed for anthropological fieldwork. The result is a strikingly original dissection of the processual ethics and politics of method in ethnography. <br></div></div> 242247 15 7 2007 Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork total:3|4:2|3:1| 3 11 11 1 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 23 22:29:29 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 13 00:18:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 02:09:37 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 02:09:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 07:35:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 07:35:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jun 17 02:35:54 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 02:35:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 26 22:41:37 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 22:41:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 11 11:18:34 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 11:18:34 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 15 10:45:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 10:45:08 -0700 2008 0 0 true false Mon Jan 28 06:14:18 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 06:14:55 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jan 21 05:28:01 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 05:28:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jan 21 05:26:01 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 05:26:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jan 19 23:59:22 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 23:59:28 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=250000