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Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology Hardcover - 2011

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Author: Signe Howell
ISBN: 9780253356765

by Signe Howell (Editor); Aud Talle (Editor); Contribution by Terence Turner

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Many anthropologists return to their original fieldwork sites a number of times during their careers, but this experience has seldom been subjected to analytic and theoretical scrutiny. The contributors to Returns to the Field have all undertaken multitemporal fieldwork--repeated visits to the same place--over periods ranging from 20 to 40 years among minority groups in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Melanesia. Over the years of contact, these anthropologists have witnessed dramatic changes, but also the perseverance of the people they have worked with. In vivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type of fieldwork practice--the kind of knowledge it produces, what methodological tools are appropriate, and how relationships with people in the field site change over time.

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Title Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology
Author Signe Howell (Editor); Aud Talle (Editor); Contribution by Terence Turner
Binding Hardcover
Pages 286
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Indiana University Press
Date 2011-12
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780253356765 / 0253356768
Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Anthropology - Research, Anthropology - Fieldwork
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011021671
Dewey Decimal Code 301.072

About the author

Signe Howell is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is author of The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective; The Ethnography of Moralities; Societies at Peace: An Anthropological Perspective; and Society and Cosmos: Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia.

Aud Talle (1944-2011) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and author of The Power of Culture: Female Circumcision as Tradition and Taboo (in Norwegian) and Women at a Loss: Changes in Maasai Pastoralism and Their Effects on Gender Relations.