Ethnographic Fieldwork

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. He is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil (1989) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), and editor of Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with Carolyn Nordstrom, 1995) and Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (2010). Jeffrey A. Sluka is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. He is past Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, author of Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish: Popular Support for the IRA and INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto (1989), and editor of Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (2000).

"This final section serves to bring full circle many of the central issues about the relationship between ethnographers and their research subjects and, thus, is a fitting conclusion to an extraordinary collection." (Anthropos, 2 October 2013)

• About the Editors x Editors’ Acknowledgments xiAcknowledgments to Sources xiiFieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction 1Jeffrey S. Sluka and Antonius C. G. M. RobbenPart I Beginnings 49Introduction 51Antonius C. G. M. Robben1 The Observation of Savage Peoples 56Joseph-Marie Degérando2 The Methods of Ethnology 63Franz Boas3 Method and Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork 69Bronislaw MalinowskiPart II Fieldwork Identity 83Introduction 85Antonius C. G. M. Robben4 A Woman Going Native 92Hortense Powdermaker5 Fixing and Negotiating Identities in the Field: The Case of Lebanese Shiites 103Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr6 Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork 114Walter L. Williams7 Automythologies and the Reconstruction of Ageing 124Paul SpencerPart III Fieldwork Relations and Rapport 135Introduction 137Jeffrey A. Sluka8 Champukwi of the Village of the Tapirs 143Charles Wagley9 Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management 153Gerald D. Berreman10 The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence 175Antonius C. G. M. RobbenPart IV The “Other” Talks Back 191Introduction 193Jeffrey A. Sluka11 Custer Died for Your Sins 199Vine Deloria, Jr.12 Here Come the Anthros 207Cecil King13 When They Read What the Papers Say We Wrote 210Ofra Greenberg14 Ire in Ireland 219Nancy Scheper-HughesPart V Fieldwork Confl icts, Hazards, and Dangers 235Introduction 237Jeffrey A. Sluka15 Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting 244June Nash16 The Ethnographer’s Tale 256Neil L. Whitehead17 Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment 274Cynthia Keppley Mahmood18 Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast 283Jeffrey A. SlukaPart VI Fieldwork Ethics 297Introduction 299Jeffrey A. Sluka19 The Life and Death of Project Camelot 306Irving Louis Horowitz20 Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons From Fieldwork in Central America 318Philippe Bourgois21 Ethics versus “Realism” in Anthropology 331Gerald D. Berreman22 Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure 353Jeffrey David Ehrenreich23 Code of Ethics (2009) 359American Anthropological AssociationPart VII Multi-Sited Fieldwork 365Introduction 367Antonius C. G. M. Robben24 Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference 374Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson25 Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order 387David B. Edwards26 Being There … and There … and There! Reflections on Multi-Site Ethnography 399Ulf Hannerz27 A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds 409Matsutake Worlds Research GroupPart VIII Sensorial Fieldwork 441Introduction 443Antonius C. G. M. Robben28 Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis 450Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead29 The Taste of Ethnographic Things 465Paul Stoller and Cheryl Olkes30 Dialogic Editing: Interpreting How Kaluli Read Sound and Sentiment 480Steven Feld31 On Rocks, Walks, and Talks in West Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses 496Kathryn Linn GeurtsPart IX Refl exive Ethnography 511Introduction 513Antonius C. G. M. Robben32 Fieldwork and Friendship in Morocco 520Paul Rabinow33 The Way Things Are Said 528Jeanne Favret-Saada34 Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation 540Thomas J. Csordas35 “At the Heart of the Discipline”: Critical Reflections on Fieldwork 547Vincent CrapanzanoPart X Engaged Fieldwork 563Introduction 565Jeffrey A. Sluka36 Introduction – 1942 573Margaret Mead37 Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar) 579Monique Skidmore38 “Human Terrain”: Past, Present and Future Applications 593Roberto J. González39 The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ethnographic Notes on “Othering Violence” 605Nikolas KosmatopoulosAppendix 1: Key Ethnographic, Sociological, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary Fieldwork Methods Texts 612Appendix 2: Edited Cultural Anthropology Volumes on Fieldwork Experiences 615Appendix 3: Reflexive Accounts of Fieldwork and Ethnographies Which Include Accounts of Fieldwork 618Appendix 4: Leading Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Methods Texts 620Appendix 5: Early and Classic Anthropological Writings on Fieldwork, including Diaries and Letters 622Index 623