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Being There - Fieldwork in Anthropology

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Informationen zum Autor C.W. Watson teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is editor (with Roy F. Ellen) of Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia (1994) and is the author of Kinship, Property and Inheritance in Kerinci, Central Sumatra (1994). Klappentext A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways. Zusammenfassung Addresses the central position of fieldwork in modern social anthropology Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the 'Self' in Ethnographic Writing (Italy) Cris Shore (Goldsmiths College! London) 2. Location and Relocation: Home! 'The Field' and Anthropological Ethics (Sylhet! Bangladesh) Katy Gardner (University of Sussex) 3. On Ethnographic Experience: Formative and Informative (Nias! Indonesia) Andrew Beatty (Wolfson College! Oxford) 4. Learning to be Friends: Participant Observation amongst English School children (the North of England) Allison James (University of Hull) 5. The End in the Beginning: New Year at Rizong (The Himalayas) Anna Grimshaw (University of Manchester) 6. A Diminishment: a Death in the Field (Kerinci! Indonesia) C.W. Watson List of contributors Index

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Authors C. W. Watson, C.W. Watson
Assisted by C. W. Watson (Editor)
Publisher Pluto
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.01.1999
 
EAN 9780745314921
ISBN 978-0-7453-1492-1
No. of pages 184
Series Anthropology, Culture and Society
Anthropology, Culture and Soci
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Anthropology, Culture and Soci
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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