Patterns Through Time: An ethnographer's quest and journey

Title: Patterns Through Time: An ethnographer's quest and journey Author: Norman E Whitten ISBN: 9781907774881 Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing Published: 2017 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine E 1638396 Publisher Description: For well over a half century, Norman Whitten has spent a third of his professional life undertaking ethnography with Afro-Latin American and Indigenous peoples living in tropical forest-riverine environments of northern South America. He has spent the other two thirds engaged with theory construction in anthropology in institutional settings. In this memoir, he tells of his contributions to ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavor, and depicts an academic and practical environment in which strong support exists, but where obstacles and strong resistance must also be navigated. Ethnographers construct theory within and sometim