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Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- New Guinea.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Micronesia.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Polynesia.
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First fieldwork : Pacific anthropology, 1960-1985 / edited by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi.
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2018]
Subjects
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- New Guinea.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Micronesia.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Polynesia.
ISBN:
9780824872090 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0824872096 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Description:
viii, 251 pages : portraits, map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Into the unknown / Anton Ploeg -- The promise of the visual : early fieldwork in the highland fringe of New Guinea / Allison Jablonko -- On the fringe : first fieldwork in the Upper Sepik, 1966-1967 / Patricia K. Townsend and William H. Townsend -- Practicing ethnography in the mountains of Papua New Guinea / David J. Boyd -- There are stories, and then there are stories : reflections on fieldwork / Nancy McDowell -- Flying by the seats of our pants : changing topics in the field / Richard Scaglion -- Living dead birds : doing first fieldwork in the Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 1975-1976 / William H. Heaney -- Gendered experiences in the field : Bariai, West New Britain, 1980-1985 / Naomi M. McPherson -- Fieldwork interrupted : the politics of fieldwork in Papua New Guinea / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi -- Reflections and reconnections of early gastronomic fieldwork in the Pacific, 1966-1980 / Nancy J. Pollock -- Taken around and taken in hand / Karen Sinclair -- Led astray by too much kava / Glenn Petersen -- My Micronesian exile / Richard A. Marksbury -- Advice to anthropologists : taking it, leaving it, and giving it / Mary McCutcheon.
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"First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence E. Hays' Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1993), First Fieldwork begins where that collection left off in the 1950s and covers a broader selection of Pacific Islands societies and topics. Chapters range from candid reflections on working with little-known peoples to reflexive analyses of adapting research projects and field sites, in order to better fit local politics and concerns. Included in these accounts are the often harsh emotional and logistical demands placed on fieldworkers and interlocutors as they attempt the work of connecting and achieving mutual understandings. Evident throughout is the conviction that fieldwork and what we learn from and write about it are necessary to a robust anthropology. By demystifying a phase begun in the mid-1980s when critics considered attempts to describe fieldwork and its relation to ethnography as inevitably biased representations of the unknowable truth, First Fieldwork contributes to a renewed interest in experiential and theoretical nuances of fieldwork. Looking back on the richest of fieldwork experiences, the contributors uncover essential structures and challenges of fieldwork: connection, context, and change. What they find is that building relationships and having others include you in their lives (once referred to as "achieving rapport") is determined as much by our subjects as by ourselves. As they examine connections made or attempted during first fieldwork and bring to bear subsequent understandings and questions--new contexts from which to view and think--about their experiences, the contributors provide readers with multidimensional perspectives on fieldwork and how it continues to inspire anthropological interpretations and commitment. A crucial dimension is change. Each chapter is richly detailed in history: theirs/ours; colonial/postcolonial; and the then and now of theory and practice. While change is ever present, specifics are not. Reflecting back, the authors demonstrate how that specificity defined their experiences and ultimately their ethnographic re/productions"--Publisher's website.
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H 305.80072 Fi
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