Being there : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth / edited by John Borneman, Abdellah Hammoudi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borneman, John, 1952-

Hammoudi, Abdellah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift attention back to the subtle dynamics of the ethnographic encounter. From an Inuit village to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account illustrates how, despite its challenges, fieldwork yields important insights outside the reach of textual analysis.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction

2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj

3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit

4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat

5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India

6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania

7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation

8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography)

9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat

10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork

Biographical Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612772559

9781282772557

1282772554

9780520943438

0520943430

OCLC:

794663672