Ethnographic fieldwork : an anthropological reader

Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (Added Author). Sluka, Jeffrey A. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 1405125926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1405125934 (printed case hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781405125925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781405125932 (printed case hardback : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xvi, 616 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-593) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fieldwork in cultural anthropology : an introduction / Jeffrey A. Sluka and Antonius C. G. M. Robben -- 1. The observation of savage peoples / Joseph-Marie Degerando -- 2. The methods of ethnology / Franz Boas -- 3. Method and scope of anthropological fieldwork / Bronislaw Malinowski -- 4. A woman going native / Hortense Powdermaker -- 5. Sex, color, and rites of passage in ethnographic research / Norris Brock Johnson -- 6. Walking the fire line : the erotic dimension of the fieldwork experience / Kate Altork -- 7. Self-conscious anthropology / Anthony P. Cohen -- 8. Champukwi of the village of the Tapirs / Charles Wagley -- 9. Behind many masks : ethnography and impression management / Gerald D. Berreman -- 10. Ethnographic seduction, transference, and resistance in dialogues about terror and violence in Argentina / Antonius C. G. M. Robben -- 11. Custer died for your sins / Vine Deloria, Jr. 12. Here come the Anthros / Cecil King -- 13. When they read what the papers say we wrote / Ofra Greenberg -- 14. Ire in Ireland / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 15. Ethnology in a revolutionary setting / June Nash -- 16. Human hazards of fieldwork / Nancy Howell -- 17. War on the front lines / Carolyn Nordstrom -- 18. Reflections on managing danger in fieldwork : dangerous anthropology in Belfast / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- 19. The life and death of Project Camelot / Irving Louis Horowitz -- 20. Confronting the ethics of ethnography : lessons from fieldwork in Central America / Philippe Bourgois -- 21. Ethics versus "realism" in anthropology / Gerald D. Berreman -- 22. Healing dilemmas / Donald Pollock -- 23. Code of ethics / American Anthropological Association -- 24. Beyond "culture" : space, identity, and the politics of difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson -- 25. Afghanistan, ethnography, and the new world order / David B. Edwards -- 26. Being there ... and there ... and there! : reflections on multi-site ethnography / Ulf Hannerz -- 27. Ethnography in/of transnational processes : following gyres in the worlds of big science and European integration / Stacia E. Zabusky -- 28. Balinese character : a photographic analysis / Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead -- 29. The taste of ethnographic things / Paul Stoller and Cheryl Olkes -- 30. Dialogic editing : interpreting how Kaluli read Sound and sentiment / Steven Feld -- 31. Senses / Michael Herzfeld -- 32. Fieldwork and friendship in Morocco / Paul Rabinow -- 33. Tuhami : portrait of a Moroccan / Vincent Crapanzano -- 34. The way things are said / Jeanne Favret-Saada -- 35. On ethnographic authority / James Clifford -- 36. Return to laughter / Elenore Smith Bowen -- 37. The teachings of Don Juan : a Yaqui way of knowledge / Carlos Castaneda -- 38. Shabono : a true adventure in the remote and magical heart of the South American jungle / Florinda Donner -- App. 1. Key ethnographic, sociological, qualitative, and multidisciplinary fieldwork methods texts -- App. 2. Edited cultural anthropology volumes on fieldwork experiences -- App. 3. Reflexive accounts of fieldwork and ethnographies which include accounts of fieldwork -- App. 4. Leading cultural anthropology fieldwork methods texts -- App. 5. Early and classic anthropological writings on fieldwork, including diaries and letters.