Anthropological locations : boundaries and grounds of a field science /

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Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
Description:viii, 275 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2727850
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Other authors / contributors:Gupta, Akhil, 1959-
Ferguson, James, 1959-
ISBN:0520206797 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520206800 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-259) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Discipline and Practice: "The Field" as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson
  • 2. After Ishmael: The Fieldwork Tradition and Its Future / Henrika Kuklick
  • 3. Locating the Past / Mary Des Chene
  • 4. News and Culture: Transitory Phenomena and the Fieldwork Tradition Liisa H. Malkki
  • 5. African Studies as American Institution / Deborah Amory
  • 6. The Waxing and Waning of "Subfields" in North American Sociocultural Anthropology / Jane F. Collier
  • 7. Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science: From Citadels to String Figures / Emily Martin
  • 8. "You Can't Take the Subway to the Field!": "Village" Epistemologies in the Global Village / Joanne Passaro
  • 9. The Virtual Anthropologist / Kath Weston
  • 10. Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology / James Clifford.