"This book is an important stimulus to ongoing debate, and
showcases some of the best of recent approaches and challenges to
the ways we know what we know." . Ethos
This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of
fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the
problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is
anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge
is this, who determines what is of significance in any ethnographic
context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and
place?
Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse
case studies. These range from the dilemmas of the religious
refashioning of the ethnographer in contemporary Indonesia to the
embodied knowledge of ballet performers, and from ignorance about
post-colonial ritual innovations by the anthropologist in highland
Papua to the skilled visions of slow food producers in Italy. It is
a key text for new fieldworkers as much as for established
researchers. The anthropological insights developed here are of
interdisciplinary relevance: cultural studies scholars,
sociologists and historians will be as interested as
anthropologists in this re-evaluation of fieldwork and the project
of ethnography.
Narmala Halstead is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the
University of East London and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship by
this university. She was a lecturer at Cardiff University and also
taught at Brunel University. She has carried out research in
Guyana, the U.S. and the UK . She has published numerous articles
examining fieldwork encounters, belonging, violence and related
issues.
Eric Hirsch is a Reader in Social Anthropology at Brunel
University. He has conducted research in Papua New Guinea and
Greater London. His most recent book is the co-edited Transactions
and Creations: Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia
(Berghahn, 2004).
Judith Okely, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Hull
University, is Deputy Director of the International Gender Studies
Centre and Research Associate, School of Anthropology, Oxford
University. She co-edited Anthropology and Autobiography (1992) and
is researching Anthropological Practice. Other publications include
The Traveller-Gypsies (1983), Own or Other Culture (1996) and
(co-ed) Identity and Networks (2007).
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