Being There The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth

• Main Authors: Borneman, John, Hammoudi, Abdellah
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley University of California Press 2009
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Anthropological methodology; Anthropology; countertransference; cultural studies; ethical responsibility; ethics of representation; ethnographic authority; ethnographic encounter; Ethnographic research; Ethnography; Ethnology; Field work; Fieldwork; fieldwork experience; fragile subject; germany; identification; india; interlocution; morality; morocco; personal experience; power of knowledge; russia; saudi arabia; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; social structures; speech translation; surrogate ethnography; syria; tanzania; textualism; the canadian arctic; Truth; ethics of representation; saudi arabia; personal experience; surrogate ethnography; power of knowledge; speech translation; germany; textualism; countertransference; india; fieldwork experience; identification; russia; the canadian arctic; morality; ethnographic authority; fragile subject; ethical responsibility; ethnography; tanzania; anthropology; social structures; syria; ethnographic encounter; interlocution; cultural studies; morocco

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 eth...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgments ONE: The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: TWO: Textualism and Anthropology: THREE: The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit FOUR: The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: FIVE: The Obligation to Receive: SIX: Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania SEVEN: Encounters with the Mother Tongue: EIGHT: Institutional Encounters: NINE: Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: TEN: Afterthoughts: Biographical Notes Index
• Cover Title Page, 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 Repatriation 8. 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 Frontmatter
• Intro -- 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 Repatriation -- 8. 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
• Acknowledgments --
• 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania --
• 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The “Metaphysics of Presence” in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat --
• Contents --
• 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India --
• 8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) --
• 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj --
• Index
• 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat --
• 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction --
• 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork --
• 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit --
• Frontmatter --
• Biographical Notes --
• 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post–Cold War German Repatriation --