{"covers": [308247], "key": "/works/OL511633W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL34300A"}}], "title": "Dancing histories", "subject_places": ["Ohafia (Nigeria)"], "subjects": ["History", "Igbo (African people)", "Igbo Philosophy", "Rites and ceremonies", "Social life and customs", "Social sciences", "Anthropology", "Ethnology"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Dancing Histories is an ethnography of life in Ohafia, Nigeria, which serves as a guide to applying heuristic methods in ethnographic research. The book focuses on performative representations of history and ethnicity and outlines a methodological program for heuristic research.\n\nIllustrating this approach through a series of essays, author John McCall demonstrates the potential of heuristic research methods across a wide range of issues including ethnographic method, the problem of objectivity in research, the constitution of ethnic identities, the negotiation of gender, and the construction of cultural knowledge through performance.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T04:07:37.164723"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-09T21:21:02.404367"}}