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...