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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.
Contents
About the Editors x Editors' Acknowledgments xi
Acknowledgments to Sources xii
Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction 1
Jeffrey S. Sluka and Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part I Beginnings 49
Introduction 51
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
1 The Observation of Savage Peoples 56
Joseph-Marie Degérando
2 The Methods of Ethnology 63
Franz Boas
3 Method and Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork 69
Bronislaw Malinowski
Part II Fieldwork Identity 83
Introduction 85
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
4 A Woman Going Native 92
Hortense Powdermaker
5 Fixing and Negotiating Identities in the Field: The Case of Lebanese Shiites 103
Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr
6 Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork 114
Walter L. Williams
7 Automythologies and the Reconstruction of Ageing 124
Paul Spencer
Part III Fieldwork Relations and Rapport 135
Introduction 137
Jeffrey A. Sluka
8 Champukwi of the Village of the Tapirs 143
Charles Wagley
9 Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management 153
Gerald D. Berreman
10 The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence 175
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part IV The "Other" Talks Back 191
Introduction 193
Jeffrey A. Sluka
11 Custer Died for Your Sins 199
Vine Deloria, Jr.
12 Here Come the Anthros 207
Cecil King
13 When They Read What the Papers Say We Wrote 210
Ofra Greenberg
14 Ire in Ireland 219
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part V Fieldwork Confl icts, Hazards, and Dangers 235
Introduction 237
Jeffrey A. Sluka
15 Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting 244
June Nash
16 The Ethnographer's Tale 256
Neil L. Whitehead
17 Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment 274
Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
18 Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast 283
Jeffrey A. Sluka
Part VI Fieldwork Ethics 297
Introduction 299
Jeffrey A. Sluka
19 The Life and Death of Project Camelot 306
Irving Louis Horowitz
20 Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons From Fieldwork in Central America 318
Philippe Bourgois
21 Ethics versus "Realism" in Anthropology 331
Gerald D. Berreman
22 Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure 353
Jeffrey David Ehrenreich
23 Code of Ethics (2009) 359
American Anthropological Association
Part VII Multi-Sited Fieldwork 365
Introduction 367
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
24 Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference 374
Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson
25 Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order 387
David B. Edwards
26 Being There ... and There ... and There! Reflections on Multi-Site Ethnography 399
Ulf Hannerz
27 A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds 409
Matsutake Worlds Research Group
Part VIII Sensorial Fieldwork 441
Introduction 443
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
28 Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis 450
Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
29 The Taste of Ethnographic Things 465
Paul Stoller and Cheryl Olkes
30 Dialogic Editing: Interpreting How Kaluli Read Sound and Sentiment 480
Steven Feld
31 On Rocks, Walks, and Talks in West Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses 496
Kathryn Linn Geurts
Part IX Refl exive Ethnography 511
Introduction 513
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
32 Fieldwork and Friendship in Morocco 520
Paul Rabinow
33 The Way Things Are Said 528
Jeanne Favret-Saada
34 Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation 540
Thomas J. Csordas
35 "At the Heart of the Discipline": Critical Reflections on Fieldwork 547
Vincent Crapanzano
Part X Engaged Fieldwork 563
Introduction 565
Jeffrey A. Sluka
36 Introduction - 1942 573
Margaret Mead
37 Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar) 579
Monique Skidmore
38 "Human Terrain": Past, Present and Future Applications 593
Roberto J. González
39 The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ethnographic Notes on "Othering Violence" 605
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Appendix 1: Key Ethnographic, Sociological, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary Fieldwork Methods Texts 612
Appendix 2: Edited Cultural Anthropology Volumes on Fieldwork Experiences 615
Appendix 3: Reflexive Accounts of Fieldwork and Ethnographies Which Include Accounts of Fieldwork 618
Appendix 4: Leading Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Methods Texts 620
Appendix 5: Early and Classic Anthropological Writings on Fieldwork, including Diaries and Letters 622
Index 623
