TY - JOUR AU - MacRae, Graeme PY - 2008/06/11 Y2 - 2024/03/30 TI - ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNOLOGY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF ETHNOLOGIES JF - Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies JA - Sites VL - 3 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.11157/sites-vol3iss2id19 UR - https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/view/19 SP - 116-136 AB - Ethnology seems to be dead, but its project of comparison lives on betweenthe lines of anthropological discourse as well as in the categories of popularculture and especially in discourses of ethnic identity. One of the problemsinherent in any comparison is finding like entities to compare. Comparison ofmaterial culture has the potential to circumvent this problem by virtue of itssimultaneous embeddedness in cultural context and its independent existence as concrete objects. This paper reflects on these matters in the context of Bali, where village spatial organisation reveals its ethnological location in both Indic and Austronesian culture-worlds, and its contemporary politics of identity are founded on an implicit folk-ethnology. It argues for a working dialogue between such scholarly and indigenous ethnologies. ER -