Returns to the field : multitemporal research and contemporary anthropology / edited by Signe Howell and Aud Talle ; afterword by Bruce Knauft.

Other author Howell, Signe.
Other author Talle, Aud, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionviii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Anthropology--Fieldwork.
Anthropology--Research.
Anthropology--Longitudinal studies.

Contents Forty-five years with the Kayapo / Terence Turner -- "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals" : Yolngu mortuary rituals in an epoch of constant change / Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy -- Returns to the Maasai : multitemporal fieldwork and the production of anthropological knowledge / Aud Talle -- Contingency, collaboration, and the unimagined over thirty-five years of ethnography / David Holmberg -- Nostalgia and neocolonialism / Peter Metcalf -- Cumulative understandings : experiences from the study of two Southeast Asian societies / Signe Howell -- Repeated returns and special friends : from mythic encounter to shared history / Piers Vitebsky -- Compressed globalization and expanding desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands / Edvard Hviding -- Widening the net : returns to the field and regional understanding / Alan Barnard.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011021671
ISBN9780253356765 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253356768 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253223487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0253223482 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN34.3.F53 R48 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold