Being there : fieldwork in anthropology

✍ Scribed by Watson, C. W

Publisher: Pluto Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 175
Series: Anthropology culture and society
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The quality of being there / C.W. Watson --
Fictions of fieldwork: depicting the 'self' in ethnographic writing (Italy) / Cris Shore --
Location and relocation: home, 'the field' and anthropological ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) / Katy Gardner --
On ethnographic experience: formative and informative (Nias, Indonesia) / Andrew Beatty --
Learning to be friends: participant observation amongst English schoolchildren (the Midlands, England) / Allison James --
The end in the beginning: New Year at Rizong (the Himalayas) / Anna Grimshaw --
A diminishment: a death in the field (Kerinci, Indonesia) / C.W. Watson.

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