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Addresses the central position of fieldwork in modern social anthropology

Trade Review
A good read. -- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the ‘Self’ in Ethnographic Writing (Italy) by Cris Shore (Goldsmiths College, London)
2. Location and Relocation: Home, ‘The Field’ and Anthropological Ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) by Katy Gardner (University of Sussex)
3. On Ethnographic Experience: Formative and Informative (Nias, Indonesia) by Andrew Beatty (Wolfson College, Oxford)
4. Learning to be Friends: Participant Observation amongst English School children (the North of England) by Allison James (University of Hull)
5. The End in the Beginning: New Year at Rizong (The Himalayas)by Anna Grimshaw (University of Manchester)
6. A Diminishment: a Death in the Field (Kerinci, Indonesia) by C.W. Watson
List of contributors
Index

BEING THERE Fieldwork in Anthropology

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/01/1999
      ISBN13: 9780745314921, 978-0745314921
      ISBN10: 0745314929

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Addresses the central position of fieldwork in modern social anthropology

      Trade Review
      A good read. -- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      1. Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the ‘Self’ in Ethnographic Writing (Italy) by Cris Shore (Goldsmiths College, London)
      2. Location and Relocation: Home, ‘The Field’ and Anthropological Ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) by Katy Gardner (University of Sussex)
      3. On Ethnographic Experience: Formative and Informative (Nias, Indonesia) by Andrew Beatty (Wolfson College, Oxford)
      4. Learning to be Friends: Participant Observation amongst English School children (the North of England) by Allison James (University of Hull)
      5. The End in the Beginning: New Year at Rizong (The Himalayas)by Anna Grimshaw (University of Manchester)
      6. A Diminishment: a Death in the Field (Kerinci, Indonesia) by C.W. Watson
      List of contributors
      Index

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