Field Stories - Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty

Field Stories presents and analyzes fieldwork stories shared in classrooms to demonstrate how ethnographic methods and analysis can be communicated more clearly to the next generation of students. The chapters are rich in detail, and written in clear narrative prose, highlighting the value of ethnographic data, and the enchantment of the field.

List of contents

Introduction
William H. Leggett
Chapter 1: Children and the Experience of Mundane Violence: Unexpected Stories from the Field
Ida Fadzillah Leggett
Chapter 2: Stories from the Other Notebooks: The Poetics of Encounter in Post-War Croatia
Judith Pintar
Chapter 3: Trained Identities: Exploring Emergent Identities Aboard One Slow Moving Train
William H. Leggett
Chapter 4: Alabama
Derek Pardue
Chapter 5: Friends, Family, Informants: Fieldwork as Relationship
Angela Glaros
Chapter 6: Friendships, Fieldwork, and the (De)Construction of Knowledge
Daniel Mains
Chapter 7: Staying in the Field: Living Arrangements, Violence, and the Female Anthropologist
Denielle Elliott
Conclusion: Finding Truths in Different Forms
Ida Fadzillah Leggett

About the author

Edited by William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett - Contributions by Denielle Elliott; Angela Glaros; Ida Fadzillah Leggett; William H. Leggett; Daniel Mains; Derek Pardue and Judith Pintar

Product details

• Authors: William H. Leggett, William H. Leggett Leggett
• Assisted by: Ida Fadzillah Leggett (Editor), William H. Leggett (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793643964
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-396-4
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls