Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Evolving Concernsof Fieldwork; SECTION I: Experience of South Asian Nations; 1 -- A Historian/Anthropologist amongst the Garos of Bangladesh; 2 -- Power and Authority in the Field; 3 -- Story of My Research in Bhutan; 4 -- Remembering Fieldwork Histories; 5 -- Fields of Working Knowledge; 6 -- Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures; 7 -- Return to Rengsanggri; SECTION II: The Indian Experience; 8 -- Researching Garo Death Rites; 9 -- Memories and Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in 'Conflict' Setting
10 -- In Search of Storytellers among the Khiamniungan Nagas11 -- Experiencing Mortuary Practices in an Anthropological Journey; 12 -- Making Senses of the Organizations and the Experiences of Anthropological Practices in a University of India; 13 -- Tales of Everyday Politics in West Bengal; 14 -- Doing Fieldwork and Discovering Harijan Art in Madhubani; 15 -- Memories of My Third Visit to the Nicobar Archipelago; 16 -- Discovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh; 17 -- Dialogue on Indigenous Studies and Fieldwork in India; Glossary; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
Summary
Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science. Ab
