Fieldwork under Fire Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture

Name: Fieldwork under Fire Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
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ISBN: 9780520089945

ISBN-10: 0520089944

ISBN-13: 9780520089945

Edition: 1996

Authors: Carolyn Nordstrom, Antonius C. G. M. Robben

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Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate, and the often surprising creative strategies people use to survive. In "writing violence," the authors give voice to all those affected by the conditions of violence: perpetrators as well as victims, civilians and…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. His recent books are Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (edited with Marcelo Sufrez-Orozco, 2000) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005).



Introduction: The Anthroplogy and Ethnography of Violence and Sociopolitical Conflict



With Genet in the Palestinian Field



The Beginning of the End



Witnessing the 1989 Chinese People's Movement



The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence



Living in a State of Fear



War on the Front Lines



Ethnography of the Ethnographer



The Croatian War Experience



The Anthropologist as Terrorist



Ethnographic States of Emergency



Myrna Mack



Reflections on an Antropologia Comprometida: Conversations with Ricardo Falla



Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast



Contributors


Index