Returns to the Field
Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology
Herausgeber: Howell, Signe; Talle, Aud
Returns to the Field
Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology
Herausgeber: Howell, Signe; Talle, Aud
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In vivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type of fieldwork practice-the kind of knowledge it produces, what methodological tools are appropriate, and how relationships with people in the field site change over time.
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In vivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type of fieldwork practice-the kind of knowledge it produces, what methodological tools are appropriate, and how relationships with people in the field site change over time.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Seitenzahl: 286
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 408g
- ISBN-13: 9780253356765
- ISBN-10: 0253356768
- Artikelnr.: 33609203
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Seitenzahl: 286
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 408g
- ISBN-13: 9780253356765
- ISBN-10: 0253356768
- Artikelnr.: 33609203
Signe Howell is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is author of The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective; The Ethnography of Moralities; Societies at Peace: An Anthropological Perspective; and Society and Cosmos: Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia. Aud Talle (1944-2011) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and author of The Power of Culture: Female Circumcision as Tradition and Taboo (in Norwegian) and Women at a Loss: Changes in Maasai Pastoralism and Their Effects on Gender Relations.
Preface
Introduction \ Signe Howell and Aud Talle
Part 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective
1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo \ Terence Turner
2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary
Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change \ Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy
3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of
Anthropological Knowledge \ Aud Talle
4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of
Ethnography \ David Holmberg
5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism \ Peter Metcalf
Part 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space
6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast
Asian Societies \ Signe Howell
7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared
History \ Piers Vitebsky
8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon
Islands \ Edvard Hviding
9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding \ Alan
Barnard
Afterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field \ Bruce Knauft
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction \ Signe Howell and Aud Talle
Part 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective
1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo \ Terence Turner
2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary
Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change \ Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy
3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of
Anthropological Knowledge \ Aud Talle
4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of
Ethnography \ David Holmberg
5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism \ Peter Metcalf
Part 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space
6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast
Asian Societies \ Signe Howell
7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared
History \ Piers Vitebsky
8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon
Islands \ Edvard Hviding
9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding \ Alan
Barnard
Afterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field \ Bruce Knauft
List of Contributors
Index
Preface
Introduction \ Signe Howell and Aud Talle
Part 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective
1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo \ Terence Turner
2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary
Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change \ Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy
3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of
Anthropological Knowledge \ Aud Talle
4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of
Ethnography \ David Holmberg
5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism \ Peter Metcalf
Part 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space
6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast
Asian Societies \ Signe Howell
7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared
History \ Piers Vitebsky
8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon
Islands \ Edvard Hviding
9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding \ Alan
Barnard
Afterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field \ Bruce Knauft
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction \ Signe Howell and Aud Talle
Part 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective
1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo \ Terence Turner
2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary
Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change \ Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy
3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of
Anthropological Knowledge \ Aud Talle
4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of
Ethnography \ David Holmberg
5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism \ Peter Metcalf
Part 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space
6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast
Asian Societies \ Signe Howell
7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared
History \ Piers Vitebsky
8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon
Islands \ Edvard Hviding
9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding \ Alan
Barnard
Afterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field \ Bruce Knauft
List of Contributors
Index