At Home and in the Field : : Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands / / ed. by Forrest Wade Young, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, Mary Mostafanezhad, Suzanne S. Finney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Aikau, Hokulani K.,; Ashton, Geoff,; Baker, Mary Tuti,; Bettinger, Keith Andrew,; Blake, C. Fred,; Bodemer, Margaret Barnhill,; Casumbal-Salazar, Melisa,; Costa, LeeRay M.,; Cottino, Gaia,; Cruz, Lynette Hi'ilani,; Finney, Suzanne S.,; Fukutomi, Satomi,; Genz, Joseph H.,; Gonschor, Lorenz,; Hefner, Carl J.,; Humphrey, Lisa,; Jiang, Hong,; Kalei, Nahaku,; Katsuno, Hirofumi,; Labrador, Roderick N.,; Lee, Hyeon Ju,; Marek, Serge A.,; Mawyer, Alexander,; Mostafanezhad, Mary,; Odango, Emerson Lopez,; Okamura, Jonathan Y.,; Pigliasco, Guido Carlo,; Runestad, Pamela L.,; Samudra, Jaida Kim,; Stiefvater, James,; Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika,; Uperesa, Fa'anofo Lisaclaire,; Vaughan, Ashley,; Viernes, James Perez,; White, Geoffrey,; Winduo, Steven Edmund,; Wong, Bradley,; Yamada, Naomi C. F.,; Yamada, Toru,; Yano, Christine R.,; Young, Forrest Wade,
• HerausgeberIn: Finney, Suzanne S.,; Mostafanezhad, Mary,; Pigliasco, Guido Carlo,; Young, Forrest Wade,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 9 black & white illustrations

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of "homework"-ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home-the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between "insiders" and "outsiders." The obligations that fieldwork engenders among researchers and local communities are exemplified by contributors who are often socially engaged with the peoples and places they work. In its focus on Asia and the Pacific Islands, the collection offers ethnographic updates on topics that range from ritual money burning in China to the militarization of Hawai'i to the social role of text messages in identifying marriage partners in Vanuatu to the cultural power of robots in Japan. Thought provoking, sometimes humorous, these cultural encounters will resonate with readers and provide valuable talking points for exploring the human diversity that makes the study of ourselves and each other simultaneously rewarding and challenging.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1.Real Encounters:Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork -- Introduction -- Tempting the Nāga -- An Anthropologist Behaving Badly -- Attacked in the Field -- A Question of Permission in Pohnpei -- Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things -- Part 2. Meaningful Encounters:Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field -- Introduction -- Fieldwork as Transformative Experience -- Fieldwork on Two Wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Ride -- The Cultural Power of Robots in Japan -- Encountering Maoist Propaganda in Pastoral Inner Mongolia -- When the Field is Your Home -- Part 3.Language Encounters:Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice -- Introduction -- Systemic Culture Shock -- Shóón Pakin, Sóóu Tittilap -- Talking with the Moai on Easter Island -- Blogging in Papua New Guinea -- Part 4. Identity Encounters:Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality -- Introduction -- Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-Wives, and Feeding the Ducks -- Manning Up -- Contested Belonging of North Korean Refugees in South Korea -- "You Filipino, Ya?" -- Part 5. Close Encounters:Marriage, Kinship, Social Networks -- Introduction -- Sorry, Wrong Number! -- The Invisible Firewalker -- "You Can Do It, Japan!" -- Head Candy/Gut Connection -- Part 6. Economic Encounters:Class, Development, Inequality -- Introduction -- Tales of the Talā (Dollar) -- Working-Class Hospitality and Etiquette in a Bowl of Rāmen Noodles in Tokyo, Japan -- Entering Moloka'I Hawaiian Style -- Part 7.Green Encounters:Environment, Sustainability, Restoration -- Introduction -- From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening -- "They Came For Nature" -- The Forest of Contradictions -- He'Eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops -- Part 8. Political Encounters:Power, Conflict, Resistance -- Introduction -- Narratives of the Vulval Curse in Bontok and Kalinga, Philippines -- Digitalizing the Wantok System in West Papua -- Embattled Stories of Occupied Hawai'i -- Ta'Aroa is Great, Good and Mā'Ohi -- Part 9. Deep Encounters:Worldview, Religion, Spiritual Practices -- Introduction -- Tiptoeing among the Knowledge of the Bodies and the Bodies of Knowledge in Tonga -- Being and Time in Nagasaki, Japan -- Losing My Mind and Loving Mosquitoes, Crickets, and Other Jungle Inhabitants -- "Papa! What's Money?" -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index