Geert De Neve, Maya Unnithan-Kumar

Critical Journeys (eBook, PDF)

The Making of Anthropologists

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an 'ethnography of ethnographers', this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preconceptions, assumptions and expectations of themselves as young anthropologists, and on the ways in which early decisions are made about fieldwork and about the selection of field locations. They question how fieldworkers come to understand what anthropology is, both as a profession and as a personal experience, through their commitments in the field, in academic departments and in contexts where their 'specialist knowledge' is called upon and applied. They discuss the nature of reflexivity that emerges out of anthropological practices, and the ways in which this reflexivity affects ethnographic practices. Providing reflections on fieldwork in such diverse places as Alaska, Melanesia, New York and India, the volume critically reflects on the field as a culturally constructed site, with blurred boundaries that allow the personal and the professional to permeate each other. It addresses the 'politics of location' that shape the anthropologists' involvement in 'the field', in teaching rooms, in development projects and in activist engagements. The journeys described extend beyond 'the field' and into inter-disciplinary projects, commissions, colleges and personal spheres. These original and critical contributions provide fascinating insights into the relationship between anthropologists and the nature of the discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317157243
• Artikelnr.: 49354127

Autorenporträt

Geert De Neve, Maya Unnithan-Kumar

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Producing Fields
Selves and Anthropology
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Geert De Neve; Chapter 2 'What I want is for Florida orange growers to know why it is important for us to whale': Learning to be an Anthropologist in the Field
Barbara Bodenhorn; Chapter 3 The Multi-Sited Ethnographer
Simon Coleman; Chapter 4 Others In and Of the Field: Anthropology and Knowledgeable Persons
Narmala Halstead; Chapter 5 Hidden Reflexivity: Assistants
Informants and the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge
Geert De Neve; Chapter 6 Writing as a Kind of Anthropology: Alternative Professional Genres
Anthony Good; Chapter 7 Among the Crowds: Learning Anthropology and Learning Multidisciplinarity
Rachael Gooberman-Hill; Chapter 8 Sensing the Field: Kinship
Gender and Emotion in an Anthropologist's Way of Knowing
Maya Unnithan-Kumar; Chapter 9 Part icipant Experience: Learning to be an Acupuncturist
and Not Becoming One
Elisabeth Hsu; Chapter 10 'Working in the Metropolis': Reflections on Gender and Fieldwork in the City
Henrike Donner; Chapter 11 The Silence in Between: Governmentality and the Academic Voice in Tibetan Diaspora Studies
Martin A. Mills;