Off the verandah (alt. spelling off the veranda; longer, come down off the verandah) is a phrase often attributed to anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, who stressed the need for fieldwork enabling the researcher to experience the everyday life of his subjects along with them. In this context, it is also interpreted as criticism of armchair theorizing.
A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air hallway or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and...
initio Abductive reasoning Deductive reasoning Inductive reasoning Offtheverandah Relativized a priori Tabula rasa Transcendental empiricism Transcendental...
armchair theorizing was the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, whose views are often summarized in the saying "[come] offtheverandah", encouraging fieldwork...
Verandah Porche (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet living in Guilford, Vermont. Porche (born Linda Jacobs) attended public schools in Teaneck...
"the meaning of the kula" Argonauts of the Western Pacific developed from anthropological research which would be later described as "offtheverandah"...
surroundings Offtheverandah, a movement in early anthropology opposed to armchair theorising This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
stepped offtheverandah ... into a room with ceiling lined in a sort of bamboo parquetry." Busst's artistic individualism and interest in the aesthetics...
attacks a naked Kentaro. While they are fighting, Kentaro is pushed offtheverandah, and ends up in hospital again. Once again, Kentaro is in hospital...
building's north verandah), and a western verandah. There were two sets of stairs offthe east verandah, and one offthe west verandah. The 1920 building's...
gable roof. The stair connected the understorey to a north-facing verandah running the length of the building. Classrooms opened offtheverandah and had...
end of the building. The lecture theatre is accommodated in the projecting wing to the northwest opening offtheverandah. This room retains the original...
semi-enclosed stair connected the understorey to a north-facing verandah running the length of the building. Classrooms opened offtheverandah and had extensive...
both the first ("Verandah Santa") and second series ("Christmas Swim"), and an Easter-themed episode ("Easter") aired as part of the second series. The third...
onto theverandah and have two lights in each leaf. A single leaf door opens off this verandah. A fenceline composed of timber picket parts, the trunk...
painted on the fascia above the entrance steps. Timber screens divide off either end of theverandah for the private use of the adjoining flats. These have...
of the 1929 Lightweight TT, crashed fatally in heavy hill fog on the Mountain section of the TT Course near to the Stonebreakers Hut on theVerandah section...
timber. Access to the southern room (possibly a former servant's room) is offtheverandah. It has timber small-pane sash windows to the east and west side...
4 m) verandahs to the north, west and east sides. Block C also had two gabled teachers rooms, each 15 by 12 feet (4.6 by 3.7 m), off its north verandah. All...
semi-enclosed, connecting the understorey to a north facing verandah running the length of the building. Classrooms opened offtheverandah and had extensive...
room at the east end. The three middle classrooms were separated by folding doors. The administration section, attached offthe north verandah, included...