The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist
in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying
historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some
anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage
point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative methodologies.
Others have lived through these changes of perspective and are able
to reflect on them, while re-evaluating the place of fieldwork
within the broader aims of general anthropology. This book explores
these transformations of world view and approach as they have been
experienced by anthropological colleagues, a number of whom began
their work very much in the earlier tradition. They cover
experiences of field research in Africa, Papua New Guinea, South
America, Central and South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,
Indonesia, Japan and China. Constant through the chapters is a
distinctively qualitative empirical approach, once associated with
the village but now being developed in relation to large-scale or
dispersed communities.
Paul Dresch has been working both on Yemeni history and the
ethnography of the Arab Gulf. He taught at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, before being appointed Lecturer in the
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of
Oxford. Wendy James has taught at the Universities of Khartoum,
Aarhus, and Bergen, and has research experience in the Sudan and
Ethiopia. She has published on the history and anthropology of
North East Africa and on general topics in religion and politics.
She is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University
of Oxford. David Parkin has carried out field research in East
Africa since 1962, much of it while at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, London University. Current research interests
include Islam, medical anthropology, socio-material prosthesis, and
cross-cultural rhetorics. He is the Director of the Institute of
Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
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