Ethnographic Fieldwork : An Anthropological Reader

by Robben, Antonius C. G. M.; Sluka, Jeffrey A.

• ISBN13: 9780470657157
• ISBN10: 0470657154
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer's experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe. Offers an international collection of classic and contemporary readings to provide students with a broad understanding of historical, methodological, ethical, reflexive and stylistic issues in fieldwork Features 16 new articles and revised part introductions, with additional insights into the experience of conducting ethnographic fieldwork Explores the importance of fieldwork practice in achieving the core theoretical and methodological goals of anthropology Highlights the personal and professional challenges of field researchers, from issues of professional identity, fieldwork relations, activism, and the conflicts, hazards and ethical concerns of community work.

Author Biography

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. He is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil (1989) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), and editor of Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with Carolyn Nordstrom, 1995) and Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (2010).

Jeffrey A. Sluka is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. He is past Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, author of Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish: Popular Support for the IRA and INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto (1989), and editor of Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (2000).

Table of Contents

About the Editors	p. x
Editors’ Acknowledgments	p. xi
Acknowledgments to Sources	p. xii
Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 49
Introduction	p. 51
The Observation of Savage Peoples	p. 56
The Methods of Ethnology	p. 63
Method and Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork	p. 69
Fieldwork Identity	p. 83
Introduction	p. 85
A Woman Going Native	p. 92
Fixing and Negotiating Identities in the Field: The Case of Lebanese Shiites	p. 103
Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork	p. 114
Automythologies and the Reconstruction of Ageing	p. 124
Fieldwork Relations and Rapport	p. 135
Introduction	p. 137
Champukwi of the Village of the Tapirs	p. 143
Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management	p. 153
The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence	p. 175
The “Other” Talks Back	p. 191
Introduction	p. 193
Custer Died for Your Sins	p. 199
Here Come the Anthros	p. 207
When They Read What the Papers Say We Wrote	p. 210
Ire in Ireland	p. 219
Fieldwork Confl icts, Hazards, and Dangers	p. 235
Introduction	p. 237
Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting	p. 244
The Ethnographer’s Tale	p. 256
Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment	p. 274
Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast	p. 283
Fieldwork Ethics	p. 297
Introduction 299	p. 283
The Life and Death of Project Camelot	p. 306
Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons From Fieldwork in Central America	p. 318
Ethics versus “Realism” in Anthropology	p. 331
Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure	p. 353
Code of Ethics (2009) American Anthropological Association	p. 359
Multi-Sited Fieldwork	p. 365
Introduction	p. 367
Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference	p. 374
Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order	p. 387
Being There … and There … and There! Reflections on Multi-Site Ethnography	p. 399
A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds Matsutake Worlds Research Group	p. 409
Sensorial Fieldwork	p. 441
Introduction	p. 443
Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis	p. 450
The Taste of Ethnographic Things	p. 465
Dialogic Editing: Interpreting How Kaluli Read Sound and Sentiment	p. 480
On Rocks, Walks, and Talks in West Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses	p. 496
Refl exive Ethnography	p. 511
Introduction	p. 513
Fieldwork and Friendship in Morocco	p. 520
The Way Things Are Said	p. 528
Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation	p. 540
“At the Heart of the Discipline”: Critical Reflections on Fieldwork	p. 547
Engaged Fieldwork	p. 563
Introduction	p. 565
Introduction - 1942	p. 573
Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar)	p. 579
“Human Terrain”: Past, Present and Future Applications	p. 593
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ethnographic Notes on “Othering Violence”	p. 605
Key Ethnographic, Sociological, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary Fieldwork Methods Texts	p. 612
Edited Cultural Anthropology Volumes on Fieldwork Experiences	p. 615
Reflexive Accounts of Fieldwork and Ethnographies Which Include Accounts of Fieldwork	p. 618
Leading Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Methods Texts	p. 620
Early and Classic Anthropological Writings on Fieldwork, including Diaries and Letters	p. 622
Index	p. 623
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