{"product_id":"being-there-9780520257764","title":"Being There","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi  2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj Abdellah Hammoudi  3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit Lisa Stevenson  4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi  5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India Leo Coleman  6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania Sally Falk Moore  7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation Stefan Senders  8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) Eugene Raikhel  9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The \"Metaphysics of Presence\" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat John Borneman  10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman  Biographical Notes Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402836222295,"sku":"9780520257764","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520257764.jpg?v=1730481646","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-there-9780520257764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}