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Book SynopsisAmong 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 ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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
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