Being There, livre ebook

This book draws on the experience of international anthropologists from Italy, the Himalayas, Northern England, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Being There examines the close relationships anthropologists establish with friends and informants in the field. Collectively they describe the varying ways in which that closeness affects the nature of the anthropologists’ observation, as well as an understanding of themselves and their discipline.
Introduction

1. Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the ‘Self’ in Ethnographic Writing (Italy) by Cris Shore (Goldsmiths College, London)

2. Location and Relocation: Home, ‘The Field’ and Anthropological Ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) by Katy Gardner (University of Sussex)

3. On Ethnographic Experience: Formative and Informative (Nias, Indonesia) by Andrew Beatty (Wolfson College, Oxford)

4. Learning to be Friends: Participant Observation amongst English School children (the North of England) by Allison James (University of Hull)

5. The End in the Beginning: New Year at Rizong (The Himalayas)by Anna Grimshaw (University of Manchester)

6. A Diminishment: a Death in the Field (Kerinci, Indonesia) by C.W. Watson

List of contributors

Index