Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. 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. With 16 new articles and completely revised editorial material throughout, this second edition includes insights from fieldworkers during earlier periods of the discipline, to the contemporary reflections on engaged anthropological research. Divided into 10 parts covering the major subthemes of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology is an essential collection of international readings for the anthropology student and practicing fieldworker. Zusammenfassung This text provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 199Jeffrey 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).

Klappentext

Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. 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.

With 16 new articles and completely revised editorial material throughout, this second edition includes insights from fieldworkers during earlier periods of the discipline, to the contemporary reflections on engaged anthropological research. Divided into 10 parts covering the major subthemes of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology is an essential collection of international readings for the anthropology student and practicing fieldworker.

Zusammenfassung
This text provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. 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.

Inhalt

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

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