Writing in the field : Festschrift for Stephen Tyler / edited by Ivo Strecker and Shauna LaTosky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strecker, Ivo A., 1940- editor.

LaTosky, Shauna, editor.

Tyler, Stephen A., 1932- honouree.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Lit, [2013].

Summary:

The present volume is situated within the contexts of the Writing Culture' debate, the 'Rhetoric Culture project, and the legacy of anthropologist Stephen Tyler's work on language and representation. While Writing Culture (1986) alerted readers to the power of ethnographers over their field, Writing in the Field alerts readers to the power of the field over its ethnographers. Rather than reprise familiar debates about writing and representation, the book's individual chapters elucidate how anthropological fieldwork is a highly fraught, provisional, and incomplete practice enmeshed in the gaps between self and the other. The book's emphasis on the concepts of pathos, epiphany, and dissociation is developed through essays that are personal, yet not merely subjective, for they draw on and contribute to deep traditions of thinking about culture and rhetoric. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Entering the Field

Finding the Right Place. On the Rhetorics of Field Access / Christian Meyer Meyer, Christian 21

To Move With Nomads / Nikolaus Scharaika Scharaika, Nikolaus 33

Role Play in the Field / Susanne Epple Epple, Susanne 39

Getting Used to the Anthropologist / Sophia Thubauville Thubauville, Sophia 51

Resurrection in Uzhhorod / David Z. Scheffel Scheffel, David Z. 53

On Ethnographic Self-Fashioning / Susanne Schroeter Schroeter, Susanne 59

Miming the Anthropologist / Holger Jebens Jebens, Holger 69

Eureka! Discovery in ethnographic Field Work / Jon Abbink Abbink, Jon 73

Part II Between Home and Field

Letters to My Mother / Paul Friedrich Friedrich, Paul 83

In Search of the 'Greekmodern' Letters to a Friend / James D. Faubion Faubion, James D. 87

The Emperor's New Clothes / Nurit Bird-David Bird-David, Nurit 95

Dreams and a Visit in the Field / Karl-Heinz Kohl Kohl, Karl-Heinz 99

Hitrel En Nil or The End of Dialogue / Bernhard Streck Streck, Bernhard 103

To Work With Ginno-Reflections on Fieldwork in Arbore / Echi Christina Gabbert Gabbert, Echi Christina, Ginno Ballo Ballo, Ginno 107

Part III Writing in the Field

Himalayan Diaries / Michael Oppitz Oppitz, Michael 119

Witnessing United Nations Failure in Kosovo / Ralph Cintron Cintron, Ralph 135

Moonlit Hutterian Narrative / Peter H. Stephenson Stephenson, Peter H. 143

Fieldwork in the Fields / Jean Lydall Lydall, Jean 153

From A Filmmaker's Journal / David MacDougall MacDougall, David 167

Smelling Spirits and Speaking Birds / Shauna LaTosky LaTosky, Shauna 195

What Caused Baldambe's Death? / Ivo Strecker Strecker, Ivo 207.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

364390424X

9783643904249

OCLC:

859187424

Publisher Number:

99957898963