Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be : : Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition / / ed. by George E. Marcus, James D. Faubion.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Breglia, Lisa,; Chung, Jae A.,; Faubion, James D.,; Fischer, Michael M. J.,; Fortun, Kim,; Hamilton, Jennifer A.,; Kelty, Christopher,; Marcus, George E.,; Naficy, Nahal,; Peterson, Kristin,; Reddy, Deepa S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Faubion, James D.,; Marcus, George E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell paperbacks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 table

Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the train...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword: Renewable Ethnography
• Introduction: Notes toward an Ethnographic Memoir of Supervising Graduate Research through Anthropology's Decades of Transformation
• Part 1. REFLECTIONS ON FIRST FIELDWORK AND AFTER
• 1. Phantom Epistemologies
• 2. Ethnographic Remnants: Range and Limits of the Social Method
• 3. On the Ethics of Unusable Data
• 4. Caught! The Predicaments of Ethnography in Collaboration
• 5. The Dracula Ballet
• 6. The "Work" of Ethnographic Fieldwork
• Part .2 ON THE ETHICS OF BEING AN ANTHROPOLOGIST (NOW)
• 7. The Ethics of Fieldwork as an Ethics of Connectivity, or The Good Anthropologist (Isn't What She Used to Be)
• Part 3. TEACHING FIELDWORK THAT IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
• 8. Figuring Out Ethnography
• 9. Collaboration, Coordination, and Composition
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index