Stumbling toward truth : anthropologists at work / [edited by] Philip R. DeVita.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeVita, Philip R., 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Ethnologists--Biography.

Ethnologists.

Physical Description:

xviii, 272 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, Inc., [2000]

Contents:

An anthropologist as travel writer / Robert Tonkinson

Getting below the surface / Douglas Raybeck

Of softball bats and fishnets : a summer in the Alaskan bush / George Gmelch

The first Rotumans / Alan Howard

Navigating Nigerian bureaucracies : or "Why can't you beg?" she demanded / Elizabeth A. Eames

Two tales from the Trukese taproom / Mac Marshall

Reflections of a shy ethnographer : foot-in-the-mouth is not fatal / Juliana Flinn

Greasy hands and smelly clothes : fieldworker or fisherman / Philip DeVita

Of teamwork, faith, and trust in western Sumatra / Carol J. Colfer

Some consequences of a fieldworker's gender for cross-cultural research / Susan Dwyer-Shick

Fieldwork that failed / Linda L. Kent

Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing

Ethnocentrism and the Abelam / Richard Scaglion

What drives the birds? molting ducks, freshman essays, and cultural logic / Phyllis Morrow

What did the earthquake mean? / Alice Pomponio

Centering : lessons learned from Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer

Don't mess with eagle power! / James Clifton

A very bad disease of the arms / Michael Kearney

Too many bananas, not enough pineapples, and no watermelons at all / David Counts

Lessons in

introductory anthropology from the Bakairi Indians / Debra S. Picchi

Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda

Pigs of the forest and other unwritten papers / Terence E. Hays

Lesson from the field : gullibility and the hazards of money lending / Cindy Hull

To die on Ambae : on the possibility of doing fieldwork forever / William L. Rodman and Margaret C. Rodman

A letter from the field / Marty Zelenietz

Turning tears into nothing / Miles Richardson

Did you? / Ward H. Goodenough

Munju / Trecie Melnick

The inseparability of reason and emotion in the anthrpological perspective : perceptions upon leaving the field / Kris Heggenbougen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1577661257

OCLC:

44602504