The Restless Anthropologist : New Fieldsites, New Visions


Alma. Gottlieb
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (203 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction: The Challenges-and Pleasures-of Switching Fieldsites; 1. Unexpected Ties: Insight, Love, Exhaustion; 2. From Local to Global Ethnographic Scenarios; 3. Field and Home, Self and Memory in Papua New Guinea and California; 4. Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an "Animist Bush" and in an Urban Diaspora; 5. Passionate Serendipity: From the Acropolis to the Golden Mount; 6. Traditions and Transitions: From Market Women in the Andes to Adoptive Families in the United States. - 7. Around the World in Sixty Years: From Native America to Indonesia to Tourism and BeyondAfterword; Work Cited; About the Authors; Index. - What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In The Restless Anthropologist, Alma Gottlieb brings together eight eminent scholars to recount the riveting personal and intellectual dynamics of uprooting one's life-and decades of work-to embrace a new fieldsite.Addressing questions of life-course, research methods, institutional support, professional networks, ethnog
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Sjanger
Dewey
301
ISBN
0226304892. - 0226304906. - 9780226304892. - 9780226304908

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