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Title Fieldwork and the self changing research styles in Southeast Asia / Jérémy Jammes, Victor T. King, editors
Published Singapore : Springer, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 446 pages)
Series Asia in transition ; v. 12
Asia in transition (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 12.
Contents The Importance of Being Wrong: Reflections on 35 Years of Methodological Blunders, Empirical Errors, Theoretical culs-de-sac, and Historical Misinterpretations -- A Sociological-Anthropological Gaze on Changing Perspectives on Southeast Asia: Personal Interventions in Discipline and Area -- Salem to Sumatra (and more improvised itineraries): Reflections on a Quarter Century of Shifting Tacks -- Ethnography of the Homo Secretus: Inside Secret Societies and Societies with Secrets in Vietnam -- Engaging and Distancing: An Intellectual, Moral and Emotional Investment in the Field -- The Anthropology of Remembering: Memory as a Complementary Ethnography -- Silencing as Method: Leaving Malay Studies Out? -- the Role of Muslim Southeast Asia in Global Religious Markets -- Translating Brunei: Between Self-Reflexivity and Literary Study -- Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Islamic Governance and the Idea of Context -- Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: A Filipinos Perspective -- Writing the Local, Provincial and Public into Area Narratives -- The Political Construction of Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Career of a Concept -- At Home in the World: Reflections on Home Scholarship, Theory and Area Studies -- Researching Borneo Language Description, Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Issues of Nomenclature and Shifting Identities -- Engaging with the Bugis and Christian Pelras: Reflections on fieldwork in South Sulawesi
Summary This book presents new perspectives on Southeast Asia using cases from a range of ethnic groups, cultures and histories, written by scholars from different ethnicities, generations, disciplines and scientific traditions. It examines various research trajectories, engaging with epistemological debates on the global and local, on insiders and outsiders, and the role played by personal experiences in the collection and analysis of empirical data. The volume provides subjects for debate rarely addressed in formal approaches to data gathering and analysis. Rather than grappling with the usual methodological building blocks of research training, it focuses on neglected issues in the research experience including chance, error, coincidence, mishap, dead ends, silence, secrets, improvisation, remembering, digital challenges and shifting tracks. Fieldwork and the Self is relevant to academics and researchers from universities and international organisations who are engaged in teaching and learning in area studies and social science research methods
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 22, 2021)
Subject Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Southeast Asia
Anthropology -- Research -- Southeast Asia
Anthropology -- Fieldwork
Anthropology -- Research
Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Jammes, Jérémy
King, Victor T
ISBN 9789811624384
9811624380