In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that have hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Quŕanin Afghanistan, it has blundered around with the little consider…
This book sheds light on the contemporary state of Middle East anthropology as it is situated in broader, intertwined fields of anthropological, academic, national, and global politics. The aim is to track the relationship between anthropological work and politics, taking as the…
A historian/anthropologist amongst the Garos of Bangladesh / Ellen Bal -- Power and authority in the field / Ali Khan -- Story of my research in Bhutan / A.C. Sinha -- Remembering fieldwork histories / Mandy Sadan -- Fields of working knowledge / Ben Campbell -- Reflections on f…
This title is a survey of the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most influential anthropologists, from 'classic' thinkers through to figures working now. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within th…
How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge?Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork. The…
This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University hi the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists to…
Relationships don't just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to th…
"Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this pa…
Relationships don't just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to th…
"Relationships don't just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to t…
