Download or read book Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be written by James D. Faubion and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be articulates, at the strategic point of career-making research, features of this transformation in progress. Setting aside traditional anxieties about ethnographic authority, the authors revisit fieldwork with fresh initiative. In search of better understandings of the contemporary research process itself, they assess the current terms of the engagement of fieldworkers with their subjects, address the constructive, open-ended forms by which the conclusions of fieldwork might take shape, and offer an accurate and useful description of what it means to become—and to be—an anthropologist today.
Download or read book Doing Anthropological Research written by Natalie Konopinski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Anthropological Research provides a practical toolkit for carrying out research. It works through the process chapter by chapter, from the planning and proposal stage to methodologies, secondary research, ethnographic fieldwork, ethical concerns, and writing strategies. Case study examples are provided throughout to illustrate the particular issues and dilemmas that may be encountered. This handy guide will be invaluable to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students who are studying or intending to use anthropological methods in their research.
Download or read book Death Without Weeping written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Download or read book The Problem of Context written by Roy Dilley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ways. How do these ways differ? And what analytical strategies are adopted in order to suggest that the relevant context is "self-evident"? The notion of context has received less attention than is due such a central, key concept in social anthropology, as well as in other related disciplines. This collection of contributions from a group of leading social anthropologists and anthropological linguists addresses the question of how the idea of context is constructed, invoked, and deployed in the interpretations put forward by social anthropologists. The ethnographic focus embraces peoples from regions such as Bali, Europe, Malawi, and Zaire. Primarily theoretical in its aims, the work also draws on expertise from anthropological linguistics and philosophy in order to set the issue as much in a comparative disciplinary perspective as in a comparative cross-cultural one. R.M. Dilley is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Kathryn Bernick and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGY Kathryn Bernick, Volume Editor Introduction: Feminist Approaches to Pacific Northwest Archaeology - Kathryn Bernick A Working Woman Needs a Good Toolkit - Sylvia Albright The Cutting Edge: A New Look at Microcore Technology - Sheila Greaves Feminist Methodologies in Archaeology: Implications for the Northern Northwest Coast - Sandra Zacharias The Search for Gender in Early Northwest Coast Prehistory - Heather Pratt A Post-Androcentric View of Fraser Delta Archaeology - Kathryn Bernick Engendering Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest - Madonna L. Moss
Download or read book Body Ritual Among the Nacirema written by Horace Miner and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Deward E. Walker, Jr. and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceremonial Integration in the Plateau of Northwestern North America, Bill Brunton Political Conflict on the Colville Reservation, John Alan Ross Deprivation, Revitalization, and the Development of the Shaker Religion, John L. Schultz Anthropological Papers Presented at the Northwest Scientific Association Meetings, 1924–1968, Roderick Sprague Papers Presented at the First Twenty Annual Meetings of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, 1948–1967, Roderick Sprague Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, 1968
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial The Shoshone-Bannock: An Anthropological Reassessment - Deward E. Walker, Jr. Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 46th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Bellingham, 1993 Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock Reliance on Anadromous and Other Fish Resources - Deward E. Walker, Jr.
Download or read book The Anthropological Lens written by James L. Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a complex, wide-ranging, and ever changing field. Yet, despite its diversity, certain major themes do occur in the understandings of the world that anthropologists have offered. In this clear, coherent, and well-crafted book, James L. Peacock spells out the central concepts, distinctive methodologies, and philosophical as well as practical issues of cultural anthropology. Designed to supplement standard textbooks and monographs, the book focuses on the premises that underlie the facts that the former kinds of works generally present. Free from unnecessarily abstract theoretical language and based on compelling concrete anecdote and engaging illustration, it is written in terms understandable to the anthropological novice, as well as being of value to the professional. The book's three main concerns are the substance, method, and significance of anthropology. In his discussion of substance, method, and significance of anthropology, such as the concept of culture, as well as holism. In writing about method, he explores the distinctive character of ethnographic fieldwork and raises questions of interpretation and comparison. Finally, he considers the relevance of anthropology with respect to both its practical application and what it contributes to understanding of human affairs. Using the photographic metaphors of 'harsh light' and 'soft focus', Peacock characterizes the anthropological worldview as consisting of two elements: on the one hand, a concern with the basic reality of the human condition, free of cultural influence; on the other, a broadly based holism that attempts to grasp all aspects of that condition, including its relation to the anthropologist. His book will appeal widely to readers interested in anthropology, at all levels.
Download or read book Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition written by Janet Chrzan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.
Download or read book Anthropological Research written by Pertti J. Pelto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-02-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive text on research methods in social and cultural anthropology, covering tools, counting and sampling, fieldwork and research design. Originally published by Harper & Row, 1970.
Download or read book Journal of Anthropological Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Anthropology in Business written by Rita M Denny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive work on the burgeoning field of business anthropology, this innovative reference book, including more than 60 international scholar-practitioners, provides a foundation for the field for years to come.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology written by Marie-Claire Foblets and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. The structure of the Handbook is animated by an overarching collective narrative about how law and anthropology have and should relate to each other as intersecting domains of inquiry that address such fundamental questions as dispute resolution, normative ordering, social organization, and legal, political, and social identity. The need for such a comprehensive project has become even more pressing as lawyers and anthropologists work together in an ever-increasing number of areas, including immigration and asylum processes, international justice forums, cultural heritage certification and monitoring, and the writing of new national constitutions, among many others. The Handbook takes critical stock of these various points of intersection in order to identify and conceptualize the most promising areas of innovation and sociolegal relevance, as well as to acknowledge the points of tension, open questions, and areas for future development.
Download or read book The Study of Play written by Association for the Anthropological Study of Play. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spieltheorie.
Download or read book Explorations in Mathematical Anthropology written by Paul Kay and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1974-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent sampling of mathematical, statistical, and computer techniques used by anthropologists to tackle a wide range of substantive problems.The scope of topics considered in this volume is so wide and various as to be an impressive indication of a strong future for mathematics in anthropology. Briefly, such topics include interinformant reliability, cultural distinctiveness in conceptual areas, cultural systems as mental systems of identification, classification, evaluation and action, diffusional versus functional explanations, general interaction theory, kinship terminologies as logical systems, folklore, cultural systems as systems of knowledge and belief, systemic culture patterns, endogamy/exogamy, genealogy, relation of social structure to relational terminology, cultural continuity, and cultural change.
Download or read book Economic Action in Theory and Practice written by Donald C. Wood and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 14 chapters that focus on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. This title takes a look at urban food provisioning in Cameroon and an investigation into entrepreneurial activities in the rapidly-changing economy of Cairo.
