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Being There : The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that eth...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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Table des matières:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction; 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj; 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit; 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat; 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India; 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania.
- 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography); 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat; 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork; Biographical Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.