Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

, by Faubion, James D.; Marcus, George E.; Fischer, Michael M. J.

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ISBN: 9780801475115 | 0801475112
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Copyright: 6/1/2009

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James D. Faubion is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and the author of books including The Shadows and Lights of Waco. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine; coauthor with Fernando Mascarenhas of Ocasiao: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration; and the author of books including Ethnography through Thick and Thin.

Foreword: Renewable Ethnography	p. vii
Introduction: Notes toward an Ethnographic Memoir of Supervising Graduate Research through Anthropology's Decades of Transformation	p. 1
Appendix: A Note on the Literature Relating to Fieldwork and Ethnography	p. 32
Reflections On First Fieldwork and After
Phantom Epistemologies	p. 37
Ethnographic Remnants: Range and Limits of the Social Method	p. 52
On the Ethics of Unusable Data	p. 73
Caught! The Predicaments of Ethnography in Collaboration	p. 89
The Dracula Ballet: A Tale of Fieldwork in Politics	p. 113
The "Work" of Ethnographic Fieldwork	p. 129
On The Ethics of Being an Anthropologist (Now)
The Ethics of Fieldwork as an Ethics of Connectivity, or The Good Anthropologist (Isn't What She Used to Be)	p. 145
Teaching Fieldwork that is Not What It Used to Be
Figuring Out Ethnography	p. 167
Questioning a Text	p. 173
Collaboration, Coordination, and Composition: Fieldwork after the Internet	p. 184
Bibliography	p. 207
Contributors	p. 221
Index	p. 223
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