Being There

The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth

By: John Borneman (Editor), Abdellah Hammoudi (Editor)

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Paperback | 4 February 2009 | Edition Number 1

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"In recent decades anthropologists have learned to think of themselves as prisoners of text. In the new orthodoxy, ethnography is best viewed as a certain kind of literary genre, textual criticism provides a master theory for understanding all manner of social and cultural phenomena, and young anthropologists show a reluctance to leave the comfort zone of the archive and the library where, whatever else happens, no unruly interlocutor is going to do something unseemly like answering back. This brilliant and humane volume promises to put paid to all that. Anthropology is the product of an encounter with the world we call fieldwork, and fieldwork is an edgy business in which researchers necessarily put themselves at intellectual, political and ethical risk. This volume restores that edgy business to the heart of our concerns, and reminds anthropologists that their distinctive way of engaging the world can be the source of real intellectual excitement, and as worthy of sophisticated theoretical reflection as anything they do."--Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction	p. 1
Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj	p. 25
The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit	p. 55
The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat	p. 77
The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India	p. 113
Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania	p. 151
Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation	p. 183
Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography)	p. 201
Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat	p. 237
Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork	p. 259
Biographical Notes	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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