Ursula Rao is Lecturer in Anthropology in the University of Halle, and is now involved in writing about the problem of fieldwork in dispersed and postmodern settings. She has also worked extensively in the field of Religious Anthropology and written Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politics in Contemporary Urban India (2003, Manohar), Kommunalismus in Indien. Eine Darstellung der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion über Hindu-Muslim-Konflikte (2003) and co-editor of Im Rausch des Rituals: Gestaltung und Transformation der Wirklichkeit in körperlicher Performanz (2000), She has further edited a volume on the relevance of performance for cultural change: Kulturelle VerWandlungen. Die Gestaltung sozialer Welten in der Performanz (2005)

• List of FiguresKlaus Peter KöppingIntroductionUrsula Rao and John HutnykPART I: FIELDWORKSChapter 1. Reflexivity Unbound: Shifting Styles of Critical Self-awareness from the Malinowskian Scene of Fieldwork and Writing to the Emergence of Multi-sited EthnographyGeorge MarcusChapter 2. News from the Field: the Experience of Transgression and the Transformation of Knowledge during Research in an Expert-siteUrsula RaoChapter 3. Soiled Work and the ArtefactHoward PotterChapter 4. Transgression for Transcendence? On the Anthropologist’s (Dis)engagement in the Politics of MeaningKaori SugishitaChapter 5. Running Out of Tricks: the Experience of Ethnography and the Politics of CulturalismThomas ReuterPART II: PERFORMANCESChapter 6. Transcending Transgression with Transgression: Inheriting Forsaken Souls in BaliMary Ida BagusChapter 7. The ‘Dance of Punishment’: Transgression and Punishment in an East Indian RitualBurkhard SchnepelChapter 8. Divine Play or Subversive Comedy? Reflections on Costuming and Gender at a Hindu FestivalBeatrix HauserChapter 9. Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and MimesisAlexander HennChapter 10. Animism on Stage: Tracing Anthropology’s Heritage in Contemporary African Dance in EuropeNadine SievekingChapter 11. Transgression and the EroticVincent CrapanzanoPART III: INFRINGEMENTSChapter 12. Michel Leiris: Master of Ethnographic FailurePeter PhippsChapter 13. Boundary Confusion in Anthropology and Art: Pablo Picasso and Michel LeirisJudith WeissChapter 14. The Concatenation of Minds KlausPeter BuchheitChapter 15. Transgressions of Fieldwork/Filed Works: Method in the MadnessJohn HutnykNotes on ContributorsIndex

Ursula Rao is Lecturer in Anthropology in the University of Halle, and is now involved in writing about the problem of fieldwork in dispersed and postmodern settings. She has also worked extensively in the field of Religious Anthropology and written Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politics in Contemporary Urban India (2003, Manohar), Kommunalismus in Indien. Eine Darstellung der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion über Hindu-Muslim-Konflikte (2003) and co-editor of Im Rausch des Rituals: Gestaltung und Transformation der Wirklichkeit in körperlicher Performanz (2000), She has further edited a volume on the relevance of performance for cultural change: Kulturelle VerWandlungen. Die Gestaltung sozialer Welten in der Performanz (2005)

• List of FiguresKlaus Peter KöppingIntroductionUrsula Rao and John HutnykPART I: FIELDWORKSChapter 1. Reflexivity Unbound: Shifting Styles of Critical Self-awareness from the Malinowskian Scene of Fieldwork and Writing to the Emergence of Multi-sited EthnographyGeorge MarcusChapter 2. News from the Field: the Experience of Transgression and the Transformation of Knowledge during Research in an Expert-siteUrsula RaoChapter 3. Soiled Work and the ArtefactHoward PotterChapter 4. Transgression for Transcendence? On the Anthropologist’s (Dis)engagement in the Politics of MeaningKaori SugishitaChapter 5. Running Out of Tricks: the Experience of Ethnography and the Politics of CulturalismThomas ReuterPART II: PERFORMANCESChapter 6. Transcending Transgression with Transgression: Inheriting Forsaken Souls in BaliMary Ida BagusChapter 7. The ‘Dance of Punishment’: Transgression and Punishment in an East Indian RitualBurkhard SchnepelChapter 8. Divine Play or Subversive Comedy? Reflections on Costuming and Gender at a Hindu FestivalBeatrix HauserChapter 9. Between Meaning and Significance: Reflections on Ritual and MimesisAlexander HennChapter 10. Animism on Stage: Tracing Anthropology’s Heritage in Contemporary African Dance in EuropeNadine SievekingChapter 11. Transgression and the EroticVincent CrapanzanoPART III: INFRINGEMENTSChapter 12. Michel Leiris: Master of Ethnographic FailurePeter PhippsChapter 13. Boundary Confusion in Anthropology and Art: Pablo Picasso and Michel LeirisJudith WeissChapter 14. The Concatenation of Minds KlausPeter BuchheitChapter 15. Transgressions of Fieldwork/Filed Works: Method in the MadnessJohn HutnykNotes on ContributorsIndex