Fieldnotes

Fieldnotes
Title Fieldnotes PDF eBook
Author Roger Sanjek
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 449
Release 2019-06-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1501711954

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Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures—Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead—and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts, especially ethnographies. Unique in conception, this volume contributes importantly to current debates on writing, texts, and reflexivity in anthropology.

Making

Making
Title Making PDF eBook
Author Tim Ingold
Publisher Routledge
Pages 215
Release 2013-04-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136763678

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Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or ‘correspond’, with one another in the generation of form. Making offers a series of profound reflections on what it means to create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand. It draws on examples and experiments ranging from prehistoric stone tool-making to the building of medieval cathedrals, from round mounds to monuments, from flying kites to winding string, from drawing to writing. The book will appeal to students and practitioners alike, with interests in social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design, visual studies and material culture.

The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
Title The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia PDF eBook
Author Shinji Yamashita
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 392
Release 2004
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9781571812582

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In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Critical Journeys

Critical Journeys
Title Critical Journeys PDF eBook
Author Geert De Neve
Publisher Routledge
Pages 220
Release 2016-04-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317157249

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Through an 'ethnography of ethnographers', this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preconceptions, assumptions and expectations of themselves as young anthropologists, and on the ways in which early decisions are made about fieldwork and about the selection of field locations. They question how fieldworkers come to understand what anthropology is, both as a profession and as a personal experience, through their commitments in the field, in academic departments and in contexts where their 'specialist knowledge' is called upon and applied. They discuss the nature of reflexivity that emerges out of anthropological practices, and the ways in which this reflexivity affects ethnographic practices. Providing reflections on fieldwork in such diverse places as Alaska, Melanesia, New York and India, the volume critically reflects on the field as a culturally constructed site, with blurred boundaries that allow the personal and the professional to permeate each other. It addresses the 'politics of location' that shape the anthropologists' involvement in 'the field', in teaching rooms, in development projects and in activist engagements. The journeys described extend beyond 'the field' and into inter-disciplinary projects, commissions, colleges and personal spheres. These original and critical contributions provide fascinating insights into the relationship between anthropologists and the nature of the discipline.

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology
Title Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology PDF eBook
Author Marcel Hénaff
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 308
Release 1998
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780816627615

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As anthropology continues to transform itself, this book affords a broad and balanced account of the remarkable accomplishments of one of the great intellectual innovators of the 20th century. It presents an authoritative and accessible analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's research in anthropological theory and practice as well as his contributions to debates surrounding linguistics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.

Africanizing Anthropology

Africanizing Anthropology
Title Africanizing Anthropology PDF eBook
Author Lyn Schumaker
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 398
Release 2001-07-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780822326731

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DIVAn innovative cultural study of a major site of British anthropology, done with methods from the history of science, detailing the development of methods, practices, and work culture in the colonial context./div

EFieldnotes

EFieldnotes
Title EFieldnotes PDF eBook
Author Roger Sanjek
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 312
Release 2016
Genre Computers
ISBN 0812247787

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Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press.