Being There : the Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth.

By:

Borneman, John

Contributor(s):

Hammoudi, Abdellah

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520943438
0520943430
0520257766
0520257758
9780520257757
9780520257764
1282772554
9781282772557
9786612772559
6612772557

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Being There : The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth.DDC classification:

305.8/00723 305.800723

LOC classification:

GN346 .B443 2009

Other classification:

73.02

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift.

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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 ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift.