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Red stamps and gold stars [electronic resource] : fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia / edited by Sarah Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Southeast Asia--Fieldwork.
- Ethnology.
- Socialism--Southeast Asia--Fieldwork.
- Socialism.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the late 1970s and '80s, socialist countries in Asia began reopening their borders to overseas scholars. Today, a growing number of social scientists are embarking on fieldwork in China, Vietnam, and Laos. Red Stamps and Gold Stars brings together all the messiness, compromise, and ethical dilemmas that underscore fieldwork in upland socialist Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. The volume's contributors � accomplished geographers, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians � foreground the importance of questioning one's subjective gaze and of debating representations of "the other." Reflecting on the realities of fieldwork in socialist regimes and analyzing their positionality and subjectivity in the field, they debate a range of ethical quandaries and the rewards that can be gained from critical reflection. Together, these unique contributions will advance the study of the practice of international fieldwork.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Heading to the Field. Dilemmas and Detours: Fieldwork with Ethnic Minorities in Upland Southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos / Sarah Turner
- Comrades of Minority Policy in China, Vietnam, and Laos / Jean Michaud
- Part 3: Post-Fieldwork. Between Engagement and Abuse: Reflections on the "Field" of Anthropology and the Power of Ethnography / Oscar Salemink
- Textual Desert - Emotional Oasis: An Unconventional Confessional Dialogue on Field Experience / Stevan Harrell and Li Xingxing
- Red Stamps and Gold Stars on the Margins / Sarah Turner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-2495-6
- 1-299-46344-4
- OCLC:
- 814661675
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