A fascinating book about ethnography made public and the ethnography of publicization

February 20th, 2018 | RESEARCH

If Truth Be Told is a collection of essays on the politics of public ethnography and focuses on seasoned anthropologists' reflexive and critical engagement with public responses to their monographs. Fassin's primary purpose is to provide an ethnography of publicization. The book illuminates how public responses reflect and are affected by hegemonic sociopolitical realities and sociocultural practices and impact on the life and work of anthropologists. Of special interest is to what effect contributors take up different roles such as the role of expert to advocate for a more nuanced, non-hegemonic and contextualized understanding of marginalized people or specific groups.

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Karen Mogendorff, Author

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Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.22323/2.17010702
Identifier Type: ISSN
Identifier: 1824-2049

Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 17
Number: 1

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Audience: General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline: Social science and psychology
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Comics | Books | Newspapers | Media and Technology