Multi-sited ethnography : theory, praxis and locality in contemporary research / edited by Mark-Anthony Falzon. - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. - xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Multi-sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and
Locality in Contemporary Research 1
Mark-Anthony Falzon
1 Arbitrary Locations: In Defence of the Bounded Field-site 25
Matei Candea
2 What if There is No Elephant? Towards a Conception of
an Un-sited Field 47
Joanna Cook, James Laidlaw and Jonathan Mair
3 Scaling and Visualizing Multi-sited Ethnography 73
Kim Fortun
4 In the Right Place at the Right Time? Reflections
on Multi-sited Ethnography in the Age of Migration 87
Ester Gallo
5 Emplacement and Environmental Relations in
Multi-sited Practice/Theory 103
Caroline Gatt
6 Expanding Sites: The Question of 'Depth' Explored 119
Cindy Horst
7 Follow the Missionary: Connected and Disconnected Flows
of Meaning in the Norwegian Mission Society 135
Ingie Hovland
8 Localizing Climate Change: A Multi-sited Approach 149
Werner Krauss
9 Changing Places: The Advantages of Multi-sited Ethnography 165
Karen Isaksen Leonard
10 Multi-sited Ethnography: Notes and Queries 181
George E. Marcus
11 Strong Collaboration as a Method for Multi-sited
Ethnography: On Mycorrhizal Relations 197
Matsutake Worlds Research Group (Timothy Choy, Lieba Faier,
Michael Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, and Anna Tsing)
12 Bridging Boundaries with a Transnational Research
Approach: A Simultaneous Matched Sample Methodology 215
Valentina Mazzucato
13 Contours of the Field(s): Multi-sited Ethnography as a
Theory-driven Research Strategy for Sociology 233
Eva Nadai and Christoph Maeder
14 Traversing Cultural Sites: Doing Ethnography among
Sudanese Migrants in Germany 251
Cordula Weiflkppel
Afterword: The Long March of Anthropology 271
UlfHannerz

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