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Anthropologists in a Wider World : Essays on Field Research / ed. by Paul Dresch, David Parkin, Wendy James.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 7Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2000]Copyright date: 2000Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789203929
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301/.07/23 21
LOC classification:
  • GN34.3.F53 A57 2000
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: FIELDWORK AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME -- Chapter 1 INDIANS AND COWBOYS: TWO FIELD EXPERIENCES -- Chapter 2 A VIEW FROM AFAR: MEMORIES OF NEW GUINEA HIGHLAND WARFARE -- Chapter 3 BEYOND THE FIRST ENCOUNTER: TRANSFORMATIONS OF ‘THE FIELD’ IN NORTH EAST AFRICA -- Chapter 4 TEMPLATES, EVOCATIONS AND THE LONG-TERM FIELDWORKER -- Chapter 5 WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS: TRUTH AND VULNERABILITY IN MIDDLE EASTERN FIELDWORK -- Chapter 6 SERENDIPITY: REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN CHINA -- Chapter 7 FIELDWORK AND REFLEXIVITY: THOUGHTS FROM THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN -- Chapter 8 RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE CRISIS: DISTANCING THE PERSONAL -- Chapter 9 VIEWS OF JAIN HISTORY -- Chapter 10 THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST IN THE WILDERNESS -- Chapter 11 TRYING TO GET THERE: APPROACHES TO INDONESIA -- Chapter 12 THE FIELD AND THE DESK: CHOICES AND LINKAGES -- Epilogue FIELDWORK UNFOLDING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative methodologies. Others have lived through these changes of perspective and are able to reflect on them, while re-evaluating the place of fieldwork within the broader aims of general anthropology. This book explores these transformations of world view and approach as they have been experienced by anthropological colleagues, a number of whom began their work very much in the earlier tradition. They cover experiences of field research in Africa, Papua New Guinea, South America, Central and South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, Japan and China. Constant through the chapters is a distinctively qualitative empirical approach, once associated with the village but now being developed in relation to large-scale or dispersed communities.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: FIELDWORK AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME -- Chapter 1 INDIANS AND COWBOYS: TWO FIELD EXPERIENCES -- Chapter 2 A VIEW FROM AFAR: MEMORIES OF NEW GUINEA HIGHLAND WARFARE -- Chapter 3 BEYOND THE FIRST ENCOUNTER: TRANSFORMATIONS OF ‘THE FIELD’ IN NORTH EAST AFRICA -- Chapter 4 TEMPLATES, EVOCATIONS AND THE LONG-TERM FIELDWORKER -- Chapter 5 WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS: TRUTH AND VULNERABILITY IN MIDDLE EASTERN FIELDWORK -- Chapter 6 SERENDIPITY: REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN CHINA -- Chapter 7 FIELDWORK AND REFLEXIVITY: THOUGHTS FROM THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN -- Chapter 8 RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE CRISIS: DISTANCING THE PERSONAL -- Chapter 9 VIEWS OF JAIN HISTORY -- Chapter 10 THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST IN THE WILDERNESS -- Chapter 11 TRYING TO GET THERE: APPROACHES TO INDONESIA -- Chapter 12 THE FIELD AND THE DESK: CHOICES AND LINKAGES -- Epilogue FIELDWORK UNFOLDING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative methodologies. Others have lived through these changes of perspective and are able to reflect on them, while re-evaluating the place of fieldwork within the broader aims of general anthropology. This book explores these transformations of world view and approach as they have been experienced by anthropological colleagues, a number of whom began their work very much in the earlier tradition. They cover experiences of field research in Africa, Papua New Guinea, South America, Central and South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, Japan and China. Constant through the chapters is a distinctively qualitative empirical approach, once associated with the village but now being developed in relation to large-scale or dispersed communities.

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