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In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to
analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored
in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and
fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on
the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic
research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the
field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only
implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local
(social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore
destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite,
allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.
How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of
creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows
anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take
shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique
examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring
together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer
valuable insight into their writing habits. These reflexive
glimpses into personal creativity reveal not only the processes by
which theory and ethnography come, in particular cases, to be
represented on the page but also supply examples that students may
follow or adapt.
How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of
creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows
anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take
shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique
examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring
together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer
valuable insight into their writing habits. These reflexive
glimpses into personal creativity reveal not only the processes by
which theory and ethnography come, in particular cases, to be
represented on the page but also supply examples that students may
follow or adapt.
Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese
globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's
global intervention-sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia.
Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and
resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel
Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new
empirical insights into neocolonialism and Sinophobia in the Global
South. The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the
different participants studied in the globalization processes-local
workers and cadres; Chinese managers and entrepreneurs; and the
authors themselves, three Danish anthropologists-are intimately
linked in paradoxical partnerships of mutual incomprehension. The
authors call this "collaborative damage," which crucially refers
not only to the misunderstandings and conflicts they observed in
the field, but also to their own failure to agree about how to
interpret the data. Via in-depth case studies and tragicomical
tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and
carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local
worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a
wide-ranging story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first
century.
Using bioinformatics methods to generate a systems-level view of
the immune system; description of the main biological concepts and
the new data-driven algorithms. Despite the fact that advanced
bioinformatics methodologies have not been used as extensively in
immunology as in other subdisciplines within biology, research in
immunological bioinformatics has already developed models of
components of the immune system that can be combined and that may
help develop therapies, vaccines, and diagnostic tools for such
diseases as AIDS, malaria, and cancer. In a broader perspective,
specialized bioinformatics methods in immunology make possible for
the first time a systems-level understanding of the immune system.
The traditional approaches to immunology are reductionist, avoiding
complexity but providing detailed knowledge of a single event,
cell, or molecular entity. Today, a variety of experimental
bioinformatics techniques connected to the sequencing of the human
genome provides a sound scientific basis for a comprehensive
description of the complex immunological processes. This book
offers a description of bioinformatics techniques as they are
applied to immunology, including a succinct account of the main
biological concepts for students and researchers with backgrounds
in mathematics, statistics, and computer science as well as
explanations of the new data-driven algorithms in the context of
biological data that will be useful for immunologists, biologists,
and biochemists working on vaccine design. In each chapter the
authors show interesting biological insights gained from the
bioinformatics approach. The book concludes by explaining how all
the methods presented in the book can be integrated to identify
immunogenic regions in microorganisms and host genomes.
Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese
globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's
global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia.
Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and
resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel
Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new
empirical insights into neocolonialism and Sinophobia in the Global
South. The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the
different participants studied in the globalization
processes—local workers and cadres; Chinese managers and
entrepreneurs; and the authors themselves, three Danish
anthropologists—are intimately linked in paradoxical partnerships
of mutual incomprehension. The authors call this "collaborative
damage," which crucially refers not only to the misunderstandings
and conflicts they observed in the field, but also to their own
failure to agree about how to interpret the data. Via in-depth case
studies and tragicomical tales of friendship, antagonism,
irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences
across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia,
Collaborative Damage tells a wide-ranging story of Chinese
globalization in the twenty-first century.
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