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

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Author / Creator:	Borneman, John.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (289 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- Fieldwork. Ethnology -- Fieldwork. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11134460

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Other authors / contributors:	Hammoudi, Abdellah.
ISBN:	9780520943438 0520943430 0520257766 0520257758 9780520257757 9780520257764
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Borneman, John. Being There : The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520257757
Standard no.:	9786612772559

Table of 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.

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