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Informationen zum Autor John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi are both Professors of Anthropology at Princeton University. Borneman's most recent book is Syrian Episodes: Sons! Fathers! and an Anthropologist in Aleppo ! and Hammoudi's is A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage . Klappentext "In recent decades anthropologists have learned to think of themselves as prisoners of text. In the new orthodoxy, ethnography is best viewed as a certain kind of literary genre, textual criticism provides a master theory for understanding all manner of social and cultural phenomena, and young anthropologists show a reluctance to leave the comfort zone of the archive and the library where, whatever else happens, no unruly interlocutor is going to do something unseemly like answering back. This brilliant and humane volume promises to put paid to all that. Anthropology is the product of an encounter with the world we call fieldwork, and fieldwork is an edgy business in which researchers necessarily put themselves at intellectual, political and ethical risk. This volume restores that edgy business to the heart of our concerns, and reminds anthropologists that their distinctive way of engaging the world can be the source of real intellectual excitement, and as worthy of sophisticated theoretical reflection as anything they do."—Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh Zusammenfassung Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. The Fieldwork Encounter! Experience! and the Making of Truth: An Introduction John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter! or an Experience in the Hajj Abdellah Hammoudi 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit Lisa Stevenson 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference! the Ethnographer! Protestants! and Proselytization in North India Leo Coleman 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania Sally Falk Moore 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech! Translation! and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation Stefan Senders 8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) Eugene Raikhel 9. Fieldwork Experience! Collaboration! and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat John Borneman 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman Biographical Notes Index ...
