TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,C.W.
TI  - Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology
T2  - Anthropology, Culture and Society Series
SN  - 9781849640480
AV  - GN34.3.F53 -- B45 1999eb 
U1  - 301/.0723 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Anthropology -- Fieldwork
KW  - Anthropology -- Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: THE QUALITY OF BEING THERE -- 'ANOTHER BOOK ON THE EXPERIENCE OF FIELDWORK?' -- DEGREES OF STRANGENESS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 1 FICTIONS OF FIELDWORK: DEPICTING THE   SELF   IN ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING ( ITALY) -- RETHINKING THE CONCEPT OF 'FIELDWORK ' -- PROBLEMS WITH THE NOTION OF 'REFLEXIVITY ' -- PRE-FIELDWORK FIELDWORK,OR,FORMATIVE  EXPERIENCES OF A WOULD-BE ANTHROPOLOGIST -- SOLVING THE RIDDLES OF CULTURE: POST-FIELDWORK FIELDWORK -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 LOCATION AND RELOCATION: HOME,   THE FIELD   AND ANTHROPOLOGICALETHICS ( SYLHET, BANGLADESH) -- FEMINISM AND THE REVISED POLITICS OF LOCATION -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE REVISED POLITICS OF LOCATION -- FIELDWORK: A BACKGROUND -- PURDAH AND GENDER -- MIGRATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 ON ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE: FORMATIVE AND INFORMATIVE ( NIAS, INDONESIA) -- INTRODUCTION -- FIELD PERSONA AND POINT OF VIEW -- A FEAST OF MERIT -- RETROSPECT -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 LEARNING TO BE FRIENDS: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION AMONGST ENGLISH SCHOOL- CHILDREN ( THE MIDLANDS, ENGLAND) -- INTRODUCTION -- A PROLOGUE -- THE SCENE -- ACT 1: CONTEXTS AND CONTEXTUALISING -- ACT 2: TEASING AND TEASING OUT -- ACT 3: REFLEX AND REFLEXIVITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 THE END IN THE BEGINNING: NEW YEAR AT RIZONG ( THE HIMALAYAS) -- PROLOGUE -- TEXT AND CONTEXT -- THE REFLECTIONS OF A HYSTERIC -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6 A DIMINISHMENT: A DEATH IN THE FIELD ( KERINCI, INDONESIA) -- THE CONTEXT -- BEING IN THE FIELD - THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LEARNING -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RELATIONSHIP -- DULCE RIDENTEM -- RETROSPECT -- REFERENCES -- Index -- anthropologist -- as adoptive kin  5 -- as adoptive kin  32 -- as adoptive kin  39 -- as adoptive kin  53-5 -- as adoptive kin  54 -- as adoptive kin  55; as adoptive kin  56 -- as adoptive kin  64 -- as adoptive kin  83 -- as adoptive kin  159 -- as adoptive kin  161 -- as migrant  131-2 -- as object of anthropology  45 -- as research tool  4 -- as research tool  75 -- as research tool  143 -- as status symbol for fieldwork hosts  31 -- authority conferred on  50 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  16 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  25 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  42 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  44 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  52-3 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  56 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  60-1 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  68-9 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  70 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  71 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  94 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  105 -- changes in anthropologist's perception  122 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  53 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  69-71 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  78 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  80 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  82-92 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  103 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  127 -- changes in relationship withfieldwork informants and data  153-9 -- fitness for the task  143 -- journalists distinguished  160 -- location in ethnographic accounts  10 -- location in ethnographic accounts  50 -- location in ethnographic accounts  68 -- location in ethnographic accounts  95 -- location in ethnographic accounts  141-3 -- mistaken for a spy  54 -- mistaken for a spy  64-5 -- motivation of  145 -- motivation of  159 -- personal locations and identities, influence of  49; personal locations and identities, influence of  70-1 -- positioning of  6 -- positioning of  12 -- positioning of  13 -- positioning of  45 -- positioning of  50 -- positioning of  52-3 -- positioning of  59 -- positioning of  62-3 -- positioning of  65 -- positioning of  67 -- positioning of  70 -- positioning of  71 -- positioning of  80 -- positioning of  83 -- positioning of  145 -- self-understanding  2 -- self-understanding  30 -- self-understanding  77 -- self-understanding  95 -- self-understanding  96 -- vocation and responsibilities of  160-2 -- Asad, Talal 45 -- autobiography -- 11-12 -- 15 -- 18 -- 25 -- 29 -- 123 -- 130 -- 133 -- 136 -- 141 -- 142 -- 143 -- Banyuwangi, Java 79 -- Barker, Pat 133-6 -- Barley, Nigel 12 -- Berreman, Gerald 13 -- Boissevain, Jeremy F. 9 -- Bowen, Elenore -- 11 -- 12 -- 14 -- Breuer, Joseph 133 -- Briggs, Jean -- 143 -- 145 -- British anthropology, structuralist-functionalist legacy of -- 8 -- 28 -- 41 -- 122-3 -- 130 -- Brooks, David H.M. 118 n.1 -- Burano, Italy 31-2 -- Béteille, André and T.N.Madan 21 n.10 -- Cartier-Bresson, Henri 121-2 -- Casagrande, Joseph B. -- Casagrande, Joseph B  9 -- Casagrande, Joseph B  10 -- Casagrande, Joseph B  13 -- Casagrande, Joseph B  16 -- Castaneda, Carlos 21 n.7 -- Catholicism and Communism -- 32 -- 34-8 -- Cesara, Manda 14 -- childhood -- as a socially constructed cultural context  100 -- as a socially constructed cultural context  105 -- as a socially constructed cultural context  113 -- ethnography of childhood movement  100 -- formation of agents and styles of agency  118 -- individuality vs. conformity, equality vs. hierarchy  110 -- individuality vs. conformity, equality vs. hierarchy  113 -- individuality vs. conformity, equality vs. hierarchy  115 -- individuality vs. conformity, equality vs. hierarchy  116 -- children -- as competent social actors  100; as competent social actors  113 -- as competent social actors  118 -- boys' friendships  107 -- boys' friendships  112 -- boys' friendships  114-16 -- children's ideas of disability and difference  102-3 -- friendships among  98-118 -- girls' friendships  107-112 -- girls' games and boys' games  112 -- girls' games and boys' games  115-6 -- naming names  103 -- naming names  107-11 -- naming names  113 -- naming names  117 -- patterning of friendship  104 -- patterning of friendship  106-11 -- power relations  111-12 -- power relations  118 -- social classification  108-9 -- style  115 -- civiltá -- 40 -- 46 n.3 -- Clifford, James -- 20 n.7 -- and George E. Marcus  10 -- Cohen, Anthony P. 10 -- colonialism -- 14 -- 29 -- 43 -- 45 -- Communione e Liberazione 35-7 -- confessional writing -- 8 -- 10-12 -- 16 -- 21 n.9 -- 25 -- 27 -- 145 -- 159-60 -- Conklin, Harold 142 -- contextualisation -- 12 -- 20 n.10 -- 45 -- 124 -- global  42-3 -- global  62 -- historical  40-2 -- historical  62 -- of fieldwork episodes  144-5 -- cross-cultural understanding -- 2-7 -- 8 -- 10 -- 18 -- 74 -- acquiring it and conveying it  159-62 -- balancing the objective and the subjective  162 -- formative experience  76-7 -- formative experience  81 -- formative experience  94 -- formative experience  95-6 -- gradual acquisition of understanding  6 -- gradual acquisition of understanding  78 -- gradual acquisition of understanding  95 -- gradual acquisition of understanding  101 -- gradual acquisition of understanding  105 -- gradual acquisition of understanding  122 -- knowledge distinguished  76 -- previous experience as barrier to  78 -- previous experience as barrier to  93 -- problems of cross-cultural understanding  75-6 -- problems of cross-cultural understanding  80 -- shared knowledge  75 -- shared knowledge  160 -- third-order  117; through analytical juxtaposition of anthropologist and informants  143 -- Cushing, Frank 20 n.7 -- Davies, Terence 132-3 -- dependency theory 68-9 -- development -- 148 -- trickle-down effect  148 -- Donner, Florinda 21 n.7 -- Douglas, Mary 105 -- Dumont, Paul 11 -- Durkheim, Emile 31 -- Eliot, Thomas Stearns 124 -- emotion and affect of anthropologist -- 143 -- 145 -- 158 -- 159-62 -- and subjectivity  142 -- and subjectivity  160 -- in American anthropology  142 -- study of  141-6 -- empiricism -- 3 -- 8 -- 28-9 -- 45 -- 78 -- 95 -- 106 -- 123 -- 137 -- 142 -- 144 -- empowering the other 143 -- environmental-biological anthropology 142 -- epiphanic moments -- 10 -- 25 -- 49 -- 91 -- 95 -- 96 n.1 -- 116 -- 122 -- 124-9 -- 131 -- 135-7 -- and identity  122 -- and identity  127 -- and identity  136 -- and Malinowski  136 -- Cartier-Bresson, Henri  121-2 -- lack of  15 -- lack of  52 -- lack of  77-8 -- lack of  80 -- lack of  96 -- lack of  105 -- opacity of  81 -- opacity of  95-6 -- opacity of  112 -- opacity of  114 -- revealed gradually  25 -- revealed gradually  26 -- revealed gradually  44 -- revealed gradually  45 -- revealed gradually  105 -- revealed gradually  113 -- revealed gradually  114 -- revealed gradually  116-8 -- Epstein, Arnold Leonard 18 n.1 -- ethics -- 27 -- 34 -- 52-3 -- 63-6 -- 70-1 -- 148 -- ethnographic empathy -- 75-6 -- fieldwork experience and ethnographic understanding  74-9 -- fieldwork experience and ethnographic understanding  95-6 -- ethnographic method -- thick description  4 -- thick description  99 -- ethnography -- 44 -- 96 -- 116 -- 123 -- 130 -- 143 -- as an assertion of power  29 -- readership of  64-5 -- readership of  67 -- readership of  141 -- readership of  146 -- readership of  160 -- ethnography, styles of -- 15 -- 27-8 -- 53 -- 95 -- 124 -- 129-30 -- autobiographical accounts  25; autobiographical accounts  29
N2  - Addresses the central position of fieldwork in modern social anthropology
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