Table of Contents
About the Editors x Editors’ Acknowledgments xi
Acknowledgments to Sources xii
Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction 1 Jeffrey S. Sluka and Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part I Beginnings 49
Introduction 51 Antonius C. G. M. Robben
1 The Observation of Savage Peoples 56 Joseph-Marie Degérando
2 The Methods of Ethnology 63 Franz Boas
3 Method and Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork 69 Bronislaw Malinowski
Part II Fieldwork Identity 83
Introduction 85 Antonius C. G. M. Robben
4 A Woman Going Native 92 Hortense Powdermaker
5 Fixing and Negotiating Identities in the Field: The Case of Lebanese Shiites 103 Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr
6 Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork 114 Walter L. Williams
7 Automythologies and the Reconstruction of Ageing 124 Paul Spencer
Part III Fieldwork Relations and Rapport 135
Introduction 137 Jeffrey A. Sluka
8 Champukwi of the Village of the Tapirs 143 Charles Wagley
9 Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management 153 Gerald D. Berreman
10 The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence 175 Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part IV The “Other” Talks Back 191
Introduction 193 Jeffrey A. Sluka
11 Custer Died for Your Sins 199 Vine Deloria, Jr.
12 Here Come the Anthros 207 Cecil King
13 When They Read What the Papers Say We Wrote 210 Ofra Greenberg
14 Ire in Ireland 219 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part V Fieldwork Confl icts, Hazards, and Dangers 235
Introduction 237 Jeffrey A. Sluka
15 Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting 244 June Nash
16 The Ethnographer’s Tale 256 Neil L. Whitehead
17 Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment 274 Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
18 Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast 283 Jeffrey A. Sluka
Part VI Fieldwork Ethics 297
Introduction 299 Jeffrey A. Sluka
19 The Life and Death of Project Camelot 306 Irving Louis Horowitz
20 Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons From Fieldwork in Central America 318 Philippe Bourgois
21 Ethics versus “Realism” in Anthropology 331 Gerald D. Berreman
22 Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure 353 Jeffrey David Ehrenreich
23 Code of Ethics (2009) 359 American Anthropological Association
Part VII Multi-Sited Fieldwork 365
Introduction 367 Antonius C. G. M. Robben
24 Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference 374 Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson
25 Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order 387 David B. Edwards
26 Being There … and There … and There! Reflections on Multi-Site Ethnography 399 Ulf Hannerz
27 A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds 409 Matsutake Worlds Research Group
Part VIII Sensorial Fieldwork 441
Introduction 443 Antonius C. G. M. Robben
28 Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis 450 Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
29 The Taste of Ethnographic Things 465 Paul Stoller and Cheryl Olkes
30 Dialogic Editing: Interpreting How Kaluli Read Sound and Sentiment 480 Steven Feld
31 On Rocks, Walks, and Talks in West Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses 496 Kathryn Linn Geurts
Part IX Refl exive Ethnography 511
Introduction 513 Antonius C. G. M. Robben
32 Fieldwork and Friendship in Morocco 520 Paul Rabinow
33 The Way Things Are Said 528 Jeanne Favret-Saada
34 Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation 540 Thomas J. Csordas
35 “At the Heart of the Discipline”: Critical Reflections on Fieldwork 547 Vincent Crapanzano
Part X Engaged Fieldwork 563
Introduction 565 Jeffrey A. Sluka
36 Introduction – 1942 573 Margaret Mead
37 Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar) 579 Monique Skidmore
38 “Human Terrain”: Past, Present and Future Applications 593 Roberto J. González
39 The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ethnographic Notes on “Othering Violence” 605 Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Appendix 1: Key Ethnographic, Sociological, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary Fieldwork Methods Texts 612
Appendix 2: Edited Cultural Anthropology Volumes on Fieldwork Experiences 615
Appendix 3: Reflexive Accounts of Fieldwork and Ethnographies Which Include Accounts of Fieldwork 618
Appendix 4: Leading Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Methods Texts 620
Appendix 5: Early and Classic Anthropological Writings on Fieldwork, including Diaries and Letters 622
Index 623