Working in the field
Subtitle: anthropological experiences across the world
By: Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern
Contributors: Strathern, Andrew
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781137430977
Subjects: Anthropology; Fieldwork; Place (Philosophy); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Description: "How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Working in the Field explores emplacement and experience-centered narratives as the modes in working in places brings anthropology to life. Stewart and Strathern show how first impressions of an area carry depths of meanings which can gradually be unpacked in later analysis and how the fieldworker's memories may become blended with those of the people studied as a result of long-term engagement with them. Spanning Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to unexpected comparisons and discoveries of similarities in human cross-cultural patterns of behavior"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface: Working in Places, Moving through Spaces1. Prologue2. Papua New Guinea2. Taiwan4. Memory Conclusions.