Returns to the Field Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology

Name: Returns to the Field Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780253223487

ISBN-10: 0253223482

ISBN-13: 9780253223487

Edition: 2012

Authors: Signe Howell, Aud Talle, Bruce M. Knauft

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Many anthropologists return to their original fieldwork sites a number of times during their careers, but this experience has seldom been subjected to analytic and theoretical scrutiny. The contributors to Returns to the Field have all undertaken multitemporal fieldwork -- repeated visits to the same place -- over periods ranging from 20 to 40 years among minority groups in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Melanesia. Over the years of contact, these anthropologists have witnessed dramatic changes, but also the perseverance of the people they have worked with. In vivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type of fieldwork practice -- the kind of knowledge it…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface


Introduction




Change and Continuity in Long-Term Perspective



Forty-five Years with the Kayapo




"Soon We Will Be Spending All Our Time at Funerals": Yolngu Mortuary Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change




Returns to the Maasai: Multitemporal Fieldwork and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge




Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of Ethnography




Nostalgia and Neocolonialism




Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space



Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast Asian Societies




Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared History




Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands




Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding



Afterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field



List of Contributors


Index