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First Fieldwork - Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 (Hardcover)
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First Fieldwork - Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 (Hardcover)
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First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 explores what a
generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits
to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific
island countries and societies and in anthropology itself.
Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence
E. Hays' Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the
Papua New Guinea Highlands (1993), First Fieldwork begins where
that collection left off in the 1950s and covers a broader
selection of Pacific Islands societies and topics. Chapters range
from candid reflections on working with little-known peoples to
reflexive analyses of adapting research projects and field sites,
in order to better fit local politics and concerns. Included in
these accounts are the often harsh emotional and logistical demands
placed on fieldworkers and interlocutors as they attempt the work
of connecting and achieving mutual understandings. Evident
throughout is the conviction that fieldwork and what we learn from
and write about it are necessary to a robust anthropology. By
demystifying a phase begun in the mid-1980s when critics considered
attempts to describe fieldwork and its relation to ethnography as
inevitably biased representations of the unknowable truth, First
Fieldwork contributes to a renewed interest in experiential and
theoretical nuances of fieldwork. Looking back on the richest of
fieldwork experiences, the contributors uncover essential
structures and challenges of fieldwork: connection, context, and
change. What they find is that building relationships and having
others include you in their lives (once referred to as "achieving
rapport") is determined as much by our subjects as by ourselves. As
they examine connections made or attempted during first fieldwork
and bring to bear subsequent understandings and questions-new
contexts from which to view and think-about their experiences, the
contributors provide readers with multidimensional perspectives on
fieldwork and how it continues to inspire anthropological
interpretations and commitment. A crucial dimension is change. Each
chapter is richly detailed in history: theirs/ours;
colonial/postcolonial; and the then and now of theory and practice.
While change is ever present, specifics are not. Reflecting back,
the authors demonstrate how that specificity defined their
experiences and ultimately their ethnographic re/productions.
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