Title: Facets of fieldwork :
Authors: Wassmann, Jürg; Poser, Alexis Themo von,; Poser, Anita von
Date: 2017
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter,
Physical description: vii, 299 pages : some illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: This Festschrift in honor of Jürg Wassmann compiles essays about ethnographic fieldwork which bear witness to the diversity of experiences possible in this classic method in social and cultural anthropology. Following the academic life-course of an anthropologist, the contributions to this volume speak of personal and/or professional moments in the field. They shed light on different approaches to the field, of research over long distances or long periods of time, of research in unexpected areas or with surprising interdisciplinary agendas. It becomes clear that fieldwork is far from becoming a redundant or old-fashioned tool in the methodological canon of the discipline - through its multitude of facets it remains central and authoritative for the empiricist approach in anthropology.
Contents: Taim Bipo: the quest for the past by the members of the Basel Sepik Expedition 1972-74 / Markus Schindlbeck -- Thinking along the same lines: varieties of initiation and varieties of fieldwork in Sepik and Madang / Patrick F. Gesch -- The coral gardens are losing their magic: the social and cultural impact of climate change and overpopulation for the Trobriand Islanders / Gunter Senft -- Group dialogues, videos and multilocality in researching rituals / Antje Denner -- "I didn't know that there were other worlds out there": inside a multi-sited ethnography / Stephanie Walda-Madel -- "Houses jumbles everywhere"?: visions of a "village" in Papua New Guinea / Anita von Poser -- The chase for archival material and biographical information in the "field" of archives: remvarks about a research project, carried out in Chile, Rapanui and other places / Hermann Mückler -- References to time and space in Melanesian Music / Raymond Ammann -- The early field and commercial recordings of Kuman music: research using repatriated music in Papua New Guinea, and recent threats to cultural diversity / Don Niles and Edwar Gende -- Foreign confidants: a field day narrative / Angella Meinerzag -- Endangered fields: experiencing anthropological research in Iran / Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi -- Exchanging anthropological knowledge: a university partnership program between Madang and Heidelberg / Verena Keck -- The restitution of a carving pattern to Kayan, Papua New Guinea / Alexis Th. von Poser -- Challenges and profits of interdiscliplinary fieldwork in linguistic and cognitive anthropology / Svenja Völkel -- The trouble of having a psychologist sharing fieldwork / Pierre R. Dasen -- "Just plain folks": anthropology meets psychology / Joachim Funke.
Notes: Festschrift.
Subject headings (LCSH): Anthropology--Fieldwork.; Ethnology--Fieldwork.; Festschriften; Wassmann, Jürg