Critical journeys : the making of anthropologists /

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Imprint:Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
Description:210 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6094383
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Other authors / contributors:Neve, Geert de
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya, 1961-
ISBN:0754648095 (alk. paper)
9780754648093 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: producing fields, selves and anthropology
  • 'What I want is for Florida orange growers to know why it is important for us to whale': learning to be an anthropologist in the field
  • The multi-sited ethnographer
  • Others in and of the field: anthropology and knowledgeable persons
  • Hidden reflexivity: assistants, informants and the creation of anthropological knowledge
  • Writing as a kind of anthropology: alternative professional genres
  • Among the crowds: learning anthropology and learning multidisciplinarity
  • Sensing the field: kinship, gender and emotion in an anthropologist's way of knowing
  • Participant experience: learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one
  • 'Working in the metropolis': reflections on gender and fieldwork in the city
  • The silence in between: governmentality and the academic voice in Tibetan diaspora studies
  • Index