Auto-Ethnographies

The Anthropology of Academic Practices

By: Anne Meneley (Editor), Donna Young (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 April 2005

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How has the "business" of higher education affected the environment in which academics work? Who should be able to hold anthropologists ethically responsible—the research institution that sponsors the fieldwork or the community of people being studied? What happens when academics step out of the ivory tower and into the public realm? Why and how, do some anthropologists come undone by the challenges of the academy?

These are some of the questions posed in this innovative collection of essays. Accessibly written, ethnographically grounded, and theoretically informed, this volume faces contentious issues with honesty, integrity, and the occasional bout of humour. It touches on issues of ethics, teaching, the politics of peer review, and the ironies involved in attempting to make anthropology relevant in wider circles. It offers rare insight into the challenges and dilemmas that mark contemporary scholarship.

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Auto-Ethnographies is a lively and generally appreciative collection of perspectives on the practices that constitute academic and professional anthropology. [...] For students of ethnography and the academic practice of anthropology, this collection offers a thoughtful set of reflections and 'conversations' on what is surely the most 'vocational' of disciplines. -- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Education Society & Culture

Introduction : auto-ethnographies of academic practices	p. 1
Loyalty and treachery in the Kalahari	p. 25
Doctors with borders	p. 39
Who wears the trousers in Vanuatu?	p. 51
Gatekeeper or helpful counsel? : practices and perceptions in academic peer review	p. 67
Teaching and learning across borders	p. 80
Ethnography's edge in development	p. 94
Anthropologist and accomplice in Botswana	p. 113
The torso in the Thames : imagining darkest Africa in the United Kingdom	p. 126
White devil as expert witness	p. 143
Team diversity : an ethnography of institutional values	p. 159
Censorship, surveillance, and Middle East studies in the contemporary United States	p. 173
The auto-ethnography that can never be and the activist's ethnography that might be	p. 189
Writing against the native point of view	p. 203
An anthropologist undone	p. 216
Afterword : our subjects/ourselves : a view from the back seat	p. 229
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