Description
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging volume, seventeen distinguished anthropologists draw on personal and professional histories to describe avenues to mutuality through collaborative fieldwork, community-based projects and consultations, advocacy, and museum exhibits.
Trade Review"A terrific collection of essays that combines personal commentary with theoretical analysis focused on the heart of cultural anthropology. Rather than examine the more conventional concepts of 'collaboration' and 'engagement,' this collection goes deeper and examines not just the relationships that the anthropologist establishes with subjects/collaborators but also the impact of these relationships and experiences on the anthropologist's research, writing, career, values, and, most important, sense of self." * Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Deep Grooves: Anthropology and Mutuality
—Roger Sanjek
PART I. ORIENTATIONS
Chapter 1. Anthropology and the American Indian
—Garrick Bailey
Chapter 2. The American Anthropological Association RACE: Are We So Different? Project
—Yolanda T. Moses
Chapter 3. Mutuality and the Field at Home
—Sylvia Rodríguez
Chapter 4. "If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together": Yup'ik Elders Working Together with One Mind
—Ann Fienup-Riordan
PART II. ROOTS
Chapter 5. The Invisibility of Diasporic Capital and Multiply Migrant Creativity
—Parminder Bhachu
Chapter 6. A Savage at the Wedding and the Skeletons in My Closet: My Great-Grandfather, "Igorotte Villages," and the Ethnological Expositions of the 1900s
—Deana L. Weibel
Chapter 7. Thinking About and Experiencing Mutuality: Notes on a Son's Formation
—Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Chapter 8. Cartographies of Mutuality: Lessons from Darfur
—Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
PART III. JOURNEYS
Chapter 9. On the Fault Lines of the Discipline: Personal Practice and the Canon
—Robert R. Alvarez
Chapter 10. Listening with Passion: A Journey Through Engagement and Exchange
—Alaka Wali
Chapter 11. Why? And How? An Essay on Doing Anthropology and Life
—Susan Lobo
Chapter 12. Embedded in Time, Work, Family, and Age: A Reverie About Mutuality
—Renée R. Shield
PART IV. PUBLICS
Chapter 13. Dancing in the Chair: A Collaborative Effort of Developing and Implementing Wheelchair Taijiquan
—Zibin Guo
Chapter 14. Fragments of a Limited Mutuality
—Brett Williams
Chapter 15. On "Making Good" in a Study of African American Children with Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injuries
—Lanita Jacobs
Chapter 16. On Ethnographic Love
—Catherine Besteman
Conclusion. Mutuality and Anthropology: Terms and Modes of Engagement
—Roger Sanjek
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
