Reciprocity Rules - Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters

Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are essential to responsible research and efforts to decolonize anthropology.

List of contents

List of Figures
Introduction
Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund (Ned) Searles
Chapter 1: Brother to a Scorpion: Making Anthropological Obligations Visible in Urban Nicaragua
Josh Fisher
Chapter 2: Predestined Help: Cosmology and Constraint in Transnational Fieldwork
Michelle C. Johnson
Chapter 3: Existential Debt: How Race and History Complicate the Legibility of the Gift
Carolyn M. Rouse
Chapter 4: Reflections on a Community of the Heart: Ethnographer and the People of Juchitán, Oaxaca
Anya Peterson Royce
Chapter 5: Cigarettes, Cash, or Spare Parts: Compensation and Reciprocity in Arctic Research
Edmund (Ned) Searles
Chapter 6: Conversations and Critiques on Creating an Anthropological "Family"
Chelsea Wentworth and Julie Kalsrap
Afterword: Concluding Thoughts and Fieldwork and Friendwork
Alma Gottlieb
Index
Works Cited
About the Contributors

About the author

Michelle C. Johnson is professor of anthropology at Bucknell University.
Edmund Searles is professor of anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle C. Searles Johnson
• Assisted by: Michelle C. Johnson (Editor), Edmund Searles (Editor), Edmund (Ned) Searles (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781498592949
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9294-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Social research & statistics, Psychological methodology