| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction; 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj; 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit; 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat; 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India; 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania |
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7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography); 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat; 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork; Biographical Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
| Summary |
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift |
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anthropology |
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countertransference |
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cultural studies |
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ethical responsibility |
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ethics of representation |
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ethnographic authority |
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ethnographic encounter |
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ethnography |
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fieldwork experience |
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fragile subject |
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germany |
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identification |
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india |
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interlocution |
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morality |
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morocco |
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personal experience |
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power of knowledge |
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russia |
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saudi arabia |
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social structures |
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speech translation |
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surrogate ethnography |
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syria |
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tanzania |
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textualism |
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the canadian arctic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hammoudi, Abdellah
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| LC no. |
2008025401 |
| ISBN |
9780520943438 |
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0520943430 |
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0520257766 |
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0520257758 |
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9780520257757 |
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9780520257764 |
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1282772554 |
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9781282772557 |
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9786612772559 |
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6612772557 |
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