Description
Book SynopsisIn Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have drawn together a collection of fieldwork experiences from around the world. Using concepts like vulnerability, friendship, fear, and affect, the contributors in this collection draw on their ethnographic research and classroom experience to share instructive narratives related to their personal encounters and insights from working with local interlocuters. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork, the contributors demonstrate, in clear, relatable prose, how intimate engagements with others in the field can present moments of rich ethnographic value that can be used to understand and provide insight into global interconnections.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
William H. Leggett
Chapter 1: Children and the Experience of Mundane Violence: Unexpected Stories from the Field
Ida Fadzillah Leggett
Chapter 2: Stories from the Other Notebooks: The Poetics of Encounter in Post-War Croatia
Judith Pintar
Chapter 3: Trained Identities: Exploring Emergent Identities Aboard One Slow Moving Train
William H. Leggett
Chapter 4: Alabama
Derek Pardue
Chapter 5: Friends, Family, Informants: Fieldwork as Relationship
Angela Glaros
Chapter 6: Friendships, Fieldwork, and the (De)Construction of Knowledge
Daniel Mains
Chapter 7: Staying in the Field: Living Arrangements, Violence, and the Female Anthropologist
Denielle Elliott
Conclusion: Finding Truths in Different Forms
Ida Fadzillah Leggett
