Being there
Subtitle: the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth
By: [edited by] John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi.
Contributors: Borneman, John, 1952-; Hammoudi, Abdellah.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520257757; 9780520257764
Subjects: Ethnology -- Fieldwork
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The fieldwork encounter, experience, and the making of; title: Truth : an introduction / John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi; title: Textualism and anthropology : on the ethnographic encounter in an experience of the hajj / Abdellah Hammoudi; title: Fieldwork and the suicidal wound among Canadian Inuit / Lisa Stevenson; title: The hyperbolic vegetarian : notes on a fragile subject in Gujarat / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi; title: The obligation to receive in India / Leo Coleman; title: Encounter and suspicion in Tanzania / Sally Falk Moore; title: Encounters with the mother-tongue : speech, translation, and interlocution in post/Cold War German repatriation / Stefan Senders; title: Institutional encounters : identification and anonymity in Russian addiction treatment (and ethnography) / Eugene Raikhel; title: Fieldwork experience, collaboration, and interlocution : the "metaphysics of presence" in encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat / John Borneman; title: Afterthoughts : the experience and agony of fieldwork / Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman.