Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

✍ Scribed by Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Jeffrey A. Sluka (Editors)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 634
Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader provides a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary reflections, examining the tensions between self and other, the relationships between anthropologists and informants, conflicts and ethical challenges, various types of ethnographic research, and different styles of writing about fieldwork.Discusses fieldwork in general, as opposed to its formal methods Presents a good sense of the historical and conceptual development of fieldwork as the predominant methodological approach of social and cultural anthropology Includes introductory chapter and 38 leading articles on ethnographic fieldwork in cultural anthropology, organized around ten themes – Beginnings; Fieldwork Identity; Fieldwork Relations and Rapport; The Other Talks Back; Conflicts, Hazards, and Dangers in Fieldwork; Ethics; Multi-Sited Fieldwork; Sensorial Fieldwork; Reflexive Ethnography; and Fictive Fieldwork and Fieldwork Novels.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Dedication
......Page 11
About the Editors......Page 12
Editors' Acknowledgments......Page 13
Acknowledgments to Sources......Page 14
Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction......Page 18
Part I
Beginnings......Page 46
1. The Observation of Savage Peoples......Page 50
2. The Methods of Ethnology......Page 57
3. Method an d Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork......Page 63
Part II
Fieldwork Identity......Page 76
4. A Woman Going Native......Page 82
5. Sex, Color, and Rites of Passage in Ethnographic Research......Page 93
6. Walking the Fire Line: The Erotic Dimension of the Fieldwork Experience......Page 110
7. Self-Conscious Anthropology......Page 125
Part III
Fieldwork Relations and Rapport......Page 138
8. Champukwi of the Village of the Tapirs......Page 144
9. Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management......Page 154
10. Ethnographic Seduction, Transference, and Resistance in Dialogues about Terror and Violence in Argentina......Page 176
Part IV
The ''Other'' Talks Back......Page 194
11. Custer Died for Your Sins......Page 200
12. Here Come the Anthros......Page 208
13. When They Read What the Papers Say We Wrote......Page 211
14. Ire in Ireland......Page 219
Part V
Fieldwork Conflicts, Hazards and Dangers......Page 234
15. Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting......Page 240
16. Human Hazards of Fieldwork......Page 251
17. War on the Front Lines......Page 262
18. Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast......Page 276
Part VI
Fieldwork Ethics......Page 288
19. The Life and Death of Project Camelot......Page 294
20. Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons From Fieldwork in Central America......Page 305
21. Ethics versus ''Realism'' in Anthropology......Page 315
22. Healing Dilemmas......Page 333
23. Code of Ethics......Page 342
Part VII
Multi-Sited Fieldwork......Page 348
24. Beyond "culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference......Page 354
25. Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order......Page 364
26. Being There ... and There ... and There! Reflections on Multi-Site Ethnography......Page 376
27. Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration......Page 385
Part VIII
Sensorial Fieldwork......Page 402
28. Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis......Page 406
29. The Taste of Ethnographic Things......Page 421
30. Dialogic Editing: Interpreting How Kaluli Read Sound and Sentiment......Page 434
31. Senses......Page 448
Part IX
Reflexive Ethnography......Page 460
32. Fieldwork and Friendship in Morocco......Page 464
33. Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan......Page 472
34. The Way Things Are Said......Page 482
35. On Ethnographic Authority......Page 493
Part X
Fictive Fieldwork and Fieldwork Novels......Page 510
36. Return to Laughter......Page 516
37. The Teachings of Don Juan: AYaqui Way of Knowledge......Page 524
38. Shabono: A True Adventure in the Remote and Magical Heart of the South American Jungle......Page 531
Appendix 1: Key Ethnographic, Sociological, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary Fieldwork Methods Texts......Page 538
Appendix 2: Edited Cultural Anthropology Volumes on Fieldwork Experiences......Page 540
Appendix 3: Reflexive Accounts of Fieldwork and Ethnographies Which Include Accounts of Fieldwork......Page 542
Appendix 4: leading Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Methods Texts......Page 544
Appendix 5: Early and Classic Anthropological Writings on Fieldwork, including Diaries and Letters......Page 546
NOTE TO CHAPTER 4......Page 547
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5......Page 548
NOTES TO CHAPTER 6......Page 549
NOTES TO CHAPTER 10......Page 551
NOTES TO CHAPTER 13......Page 553
NOTES TO CHAPTER 17......Page 554
NOTES TO CHAPTER 18......Page 556
NOTES TO CHAPTER 21......Page 557
NOTES TO CHAPTER 22......Page 558
NOTES TO CHAPTER 26......Page 559
NOTES TO CHAPTER 29......Page 560
NOTES TO CHAPTER 30......Page 561
NOTES TO CHAPTER 33......Page 562
NOTES TO CHAPTER 35......Page 564
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER FIELDWORK IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION......Page 566
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 3......Page 574
REFERENCES TO PART II......Page 575
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 5......Page 576
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 6......Page 578
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 7......Page 580
REFERENCES TO PART III......Page 582
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 10......Page 583
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 13......Page 585
REFERENCES TO PART V......Page 586
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 16......Page 587
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 17......Page 588
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 18......Page 589
REFERENCES TO PART VI......Page 590
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 20......Page 591
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 21......Page 593
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 22......Page 595
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 24......Page 596
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 26......Page 598
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 27......Page 599
REFERENCES TO PART VIII......Page 600
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 29......Page 601
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 30......Page 602
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 31......Page 603
REFERENCES TO PART IX......Page 605
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 33......Page 606
REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 35......Page 607
REFERENCES TO PART X......Page 610
Index......Page 612
Back Cover
......Page 634

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