This book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social, political, economic, health, and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork. It also sheds important light on aspects often considered "…
"Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are e…
Introduction / Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund (Ned) Searles -- Brother to a scorpion : making anthropological obligations visible in urban Nicaragua / Josh Fisher -- Predestined help : cosmology and constraint in transnational fieldwork / Michelle C. Johnson -- Existential debt …
Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are es…
"Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are e…
"Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are e…
Ch. 1. Never say "Chou-chou ley" to an Aztec! -- ch. 2. Orientation to this book -- ch. 3. Historical and cultural context of community transformation -- ch. 4. "Hey mister, are you an anthropologist?" : and other mysteries of fieldwork, culture and history -- ch. 5. "Never more…
"This innovative, interactive ethnography employs a range of media to explore the lives of the residents of a village set in the rugged mountains overlooking Mexico City, focusing on how these villagers react and adapt to a rapidly globalized world. Students can view the evolvin…
"This innovative, interactive ethnography employs a range of media to explore the lives of the residents of a village set in the rugged mountains overlooking Mexico City, focusing on how these villagers react and adapt to a rapidly globalized world. Students can view the evolvin…
