{"product_id":"reciprocity-rules-9781498592949","title":"Reciprocity Rules","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReciprocity Rules explores the rich and complicated relationships that develop between anthropologists and research participants over time. Focusing on compensation and the creation of friendship and family relationships, contributors discuss what, when, and how researchers and the people with whom they work give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Through reflexivity and narrative, the contributors to this edited collection, who are in various stages in their professional careers and whose research spans three continents and eight countries, reflect on the ways in which they have compensated their research participants and given back to host communities, as well as the varied responses to their efforts. The contributors consider both material and non-material forms of reciprocity, stories of successes and failures, and the taken-for-granted notions of compensation, friendship, and helping. In so doing, they address the interpersonal dynamics of power and agency in the field, exa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle C. Johnson and Edmund (Ned) Searles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Brother to a Scorpion: Making Anthropological Obligations Visible in Urban Nicaragua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosh Fisher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Predestined Help: Cosmology and Constraint in Transnational Fieldwork\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle C. Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Existential Debt: How Race and History Complicate the Legibility of the Gift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn M. Rouse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Reflections on a Community of the Heart: Ethnographer and the People of Juchitán, Oaxaca\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnya Peterson Royce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Cigarettes, Cash, or Spare Parts: Compensation and Reciprocity in Arctic Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund (Ned) Searles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Conversations and Critiques on Creating an Anthropological “Family”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChelsea Wentworth and Julie Kalsrap\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Concluding Thoughts and Fieldwork and Friendwork\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlma Gottlieb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040864076119,"sku":"9781498592949","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498592949.jpg?v=1750948105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reciprocity-rules-9781498592949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}