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Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most on "fieldwork" - the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. The essays in this text explore the notion of "field", show how the concept is historically constructed and explore the consequences of its dominance.

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Discipline and Practice:
"The Field" as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology
Akhil Gupta andjamesFerguson

2. Mter Ishmael: The Fieldwork Tradition and Its Future
Henrika Kuklick

3· Locating the Past
Mary Des Chene

4· News and Culture: Transitory Phenomena and the Fieldwork Tradition
Liisa H. Malkki

5· Mrican Studies as American Institution
Deborah Amory

6. The Waxing and Waning of "Subfields" in North American
Sociocultural Anthropology
]aneF. Collier

7· Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science:
From Citadels to String Figures
Emily Martin

8. "You Can't Take the Subway to the Field!":
"Village" Epistemologies in the Global Village
Joanne Passaro

g. The Virtual Anthropologist
Kath Weston

10. Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology
James Clifford

REFERENCES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 28 August 1997
      ISBN-13 9780520206809
      978-0520206809
      ISBN-10 0520206800
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      Social research and statistics Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most on "fieldwork" - the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. The essays in this text explore the notion of "field", show how the concept is historically constructed and explore the consequences of its dominance.

      Table of Contents
      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      1. Discipline and Practice:
      "The Field" as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology
      Akhil Gupta andjamesFerguson

      2. Mter Ishmael: The Fieldwork Tradition and Its Future
      Henrika Kuklick

      3· Locating the Past
      Mary Des Chene

      4· News and Culture: Transitory Phenomena and the Fieldwork Tradition
      Liisa H. Malkki

      5· Mrican Studies as American Institution
      Deborah Amory

      6. The Waxing and Waning of "Subfields" in North American
      Sociocultural Anthropology
      ]aneF. Collier

      7· Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science:
      From Citadels to String Figures
      Emily Martin

      8. "You Can't Take the Subway to the Field!":
      "Village" Epistemologies in the Global Village
      Joanne Passaro

      g. The Virtual Anthropologist
      Kath Weston

      10. Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology
      James Clifford

      REFERENCES
      CONTRIBUTORS
      INDEX

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