Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science. Above all, this is a book about relationships—multi-layered relationships among people encountered in the field, the ethnographic relationship itself, with all its personal raw edges, and relationship with the land and even non-human realms. INDICE: ForewordPrefaceList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Evolving Concerns of FieldworkI. EXPERIENCE OF SOUTH ASIAN NATIONSA Historian/ Anthropologist Amongst the Garo’s of Bangladesh - Ellen BalPower and Authority in the Field - Ali KhanStory of My Research in Bhutan - A C SinhaRemembering Fieldwork Histories - Mandy SadanFields of Working Knowledge - Ben CampbellReflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures - Arjun GuneratneReturn to Rengsanggri - Robbins BurlingII. THE INDIAN EXPERIENCEResearching Garo Death Rites Erik de Maaker/ Memories and Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in ‘Conflict’ Setting - Debojyoti DasIn Search of Story Tellers among the Khiamniungan Nagas - Anungla AierExperiencing Mortuary Practices in an Anthropological Journey - Gautam Kumar BeraMaking Senses of the Organisations and the Experiences of Anthropological Practices in a University of India - Arnab DasTales of Everyday Politics in West Bengal - Suman Nath and Bhaskar ChakrabartiDoing Fieldwork and Discovering Harijan Art in Madhubani - Neel RekhaMemories of My Third Visit to the Nicobar Archipelago - Vijoy S SahayDiscovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh - Abeer GuptaDialogue on Indigenous Studies and Fieldwork in India - Daniel J Rycroft and Ganesh DevyGlossaryIndex
- ISBN: 978-8-1321-1742-1
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 386
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2014
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