Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, Ma Lunzy

Fieldwork Connections (eBook, PDF)

The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America

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Produktbeschreibung

This tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists, one American and two Chinese. As decades of mutual ethnographic research among the Nuosu in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic Â"truth.Â"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295804064
• Artikelnr.: 44785282

Autorenporträt

Bamo Ayi is an anthropologist and scholar of comparative religion. She is deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department, State Nationalities Commission, and professor of philosophy at Central Nationalities University, Beijing. Stevan Harrell is an anthropologist and translator. He is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Ma Lunzy is an ethnologist, historian, author, and curator. He is deputy director of Liangshan Minorities Research Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English Edition
Acknowledgments
Part One: Origins
1. Growing up Half Yi / Bamo Ayi
2. In the Shadow of the Han / Ma Lunzy
3. A White Guy Discovers Anthropology / Stevan Harrell
Part Two: China
4. Yinchang: My First Fieldwork, 1987-88 / Bamo Ayi
5. Getting Started in Southwest China, 1987-88 / Stevan Harrell
6. Chasing after Bimo, 1992-93 / Bamo Ayi
7. Getting Started Again, 1991 / Stevan Harrell
8. First Contact, 1991 / Ma Lunzy
9. Almost Real Fieldwork, 1993 / Stevan Harrell
10. In the Month of the Snake , 1993 / Ma Lunzy
11. Fieldwork with Muga, 1994 / Bamo Ayi
12. Getting Further Implicated, 1994 / Stevan Harrell
13. The Last Time I Led the Horse, 1994 / Ma Lunzy
14. The Bimo in the Modern World, 1994-95 / Bamo Ayi
Part Three: America
15. The First International Yi Conference, 1995 / Ma Lunzy
16. Seattle First Free Methodist Church, 1996-97 / Bamo Ayi
17. Collecting Mountain Patterns, 1999 / Ma Lunzy
18. Conceptualizing Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Bamo Qubumo
19. Celebrating Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Stevan Harrell
Epilogue: Fieldwork Connections and the Process of Ethnography / Stevan
Harrell
Cast of Characters
Chinese and Nuosu Glossary
Bibliography
Index