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The restless anthropologist : new fieldsites, new visions /

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In The Restless Anthropologist, Alma Gottlieb brings toge...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gottlieb, Alma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: The Challenges-and Pleasures-of Switching Fieldsites; 1. Unexpected Ties: Insight, Love, Exhaustion; 2. From Local to Global Ethnographic Scenarios; 3. Field and Home, Self and Memory in Papua New Guinea and California; 4. Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an "Animist Bush" and in an Urban Diaspora; 5. Passionate Serendipity: From the Acropolis to the Golden Mount; 6. Traditions and Transitions: From Market Women in the Andes to Adoptive Families in the United States.
  • 7. Around the World in Sixty Years: From Native America to Indonesia to Tourism and BeyondAfterword; Work Cited; About the Authors; Index.