Dispatches From The Field

Author : Andrew Gardner,David M. Hoffman
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478608738

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Dispatches from the Field by Andrew Gardner,David M. Hoffman Pdf

Penned by advanced graduate students amidst their dissertation fieldwork, these provocative essays capture the challenges and intricacies of that anthropological rite of passage. The collections authors frankly portray the mistakes they made in the field, their struggle to analyze the events unfolding before their eyes, the psychological and emotional frustration seemingly endemic to doing ethnography, and the ethical complexities of researching living people. The authors present these essays not as models of ideal fieldwork or as a series of lessons about how to overcome potential hurdles one faces in the field, but rather as a window into the complexities of being an ethnographer in the contemporary world. Against a backdrop of subject populations increasingly informed about global relations of power and, more specifically, informed about the topography of American imperialism, these humanistic essays vividly reflect recent shifts in both the focus and methods of anthropological research, as well as the dilemmas underlying the construction of anthropological knowledge. They are meant to spark discussion and debate. While tailored to an audience relatively new to ethnographic fieldwork (and intended as a teaching tool), this collection should appeal to anthropologists and ethnographers at all points in their career.

Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307814166

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Dispatches by Michael Herr Pdf

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Author : Roger Sanjek,Susan W. Tratner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812247787

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EFieldnotes by Roger Sanjek,Susan W. Tratner Pdf

Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press.

Author : James Tracy
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849352062

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Dispatches Against Displacement by James Tracy Pdf

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement over almost two decades of "dot com" boom and bust, offering the necessary perspective to analyze the latest urban horrors. A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy puts the hardships of the working poor and middle class front and center. These essays explore the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life. James Tracy is a Bay Area native and a well-respected community organizer. He is co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust (which uses public and private money to buy up housing stock and take it out of the real estate market), as well as a poet and co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCR:31210020116156

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Institute of Pacific Relations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Boštjan Videmšek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527522947

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Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity by Boštjan Videmšek Pdf

This book is an in-depth reportage on some of the most defining issues of our time, namely the global refugee crisis, the conflicts displacing these masses of humanity, and the causes behind them. It is also an ode to the vanishing art of the long-form feature or reportage, which is disappearing because many media organisations can no longer afford it, or are unwilling to pay for this kind of time-consuming, on-the-ground journalism. It is essential to keep alive old-school reportage from the field because it provides a human face to the issues challenging our world. It helps pierce the bubble of propaganda with a needle of truth and, beyond the political and human, it is a beautiful art form in its own right. This book showcases a keen eye for the human story and a profound commitment to the human family. By telling the stories detailed here, it helps put a human face on the suffering that is too often viewed statistically and quantitatively.

Author : Anderson Cooper
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061743351

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Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper Pdf

From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly turned upside down, whether it’s a natural disaster, a civil war, or a heated political battle. Over the last year, few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has become the touchstone of twenty-first century journalism. This book explores in a very personal way the most important - and most dangerous - crises of our time, and the surprising impact they have had on his life. From the devastating tsunami in South Asia to the suffering Niger, and ultimately Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Cooper shares his own experiences of traversing the globe, covering the world’s most astonishing stories. As a television journalist, he has the gift of speaking with an emotional directness that cuts through the barriers of the medium. In his first book, that passion communicates itself through a rich fabric of memoir and reportage, reflection and first-person narrative. Unflinching and utterly engrossing, this is the story of an extraordinary year in a reporter’s life.

Author : James Howard-Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198830191

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The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston Pdf

The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period to form, for the first time, a coherent story of the dramatic events, key players, and vast lands over which the conflict spread.

Author : Val Shushkewich
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781896219899

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The Real Winnie by Val Shushkewich Pdf

The story of Winnie, the real Canadian bear that captured the heart of Christopher, son of A.A. Milne, is told against the backdrop of the First World War.

Author : Janice M. Del Negro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216149750

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Storytelling by Janice M. Del Negro Pdf

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781581578577

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Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Pdf

Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.

Author : Bernard-Henri Lévy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300262636

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The Will to See by Bernard-Henri Lévy Pdf

An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world’s most daring philosopher-reporters “Call[s] on people not just to see the world, but to be moved and interested by what they find there, and to do something about it.”—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic “Fierce and elegant, Lévy’s musings will be of profound interest to any reader of modern continental philosophy.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Lévy into eight international hotspots—in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan—that have escaped global attention or active response. In a deeply personal introduction, Lévy recounts the intellectual journey that led him to advocacy, arguing that a truly humanist philosophy must necessarily lead to action in defense of the most vulnerable. In the second section, he reports on the eight investigative trips he undertook just before or during the coronavirus pandemic, from the massacred Christian villages in Nigeria to a dangerously fragile Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban talks, from an anti-Semitic ambush in Libya to the overrun refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. Part manifesto, part missives from the field, this new book is a stirring rebuke to indifference and an exhortation to level our gaze at those most hidden from us.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11368875

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09644687

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Presidential Election of 1876 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:600018786

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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Pdf