Contributions

  • Strathern, Andrew - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

23,750 words, Guess

Page Count

95 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781137430977
  • ISBN-101137430974
  • OCLC Control Number881681043
  • OCLC Control Number2014022468
  • Better World Books9781137430977
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Classifications

  • DDC301
  • LCCGN34.3.F53 S74 2014
  • LCCGF1-900GN301-GN674GN

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"--

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