Being there : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth / edited by John Borneman, Abdellah Hammoudi.

Other author Borneman, John, 1952-
Other author Hammoudi, Abdellah.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Descriptionviii, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Contents The fieldwork encounter, experience, and the making of truth : an introduction / John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi -- Textualism and anthropology : on the ethnographic encounter, or an experience of the hajj / Abdellah Hammoudi -- The suicidal wound and fieldwork among Canadian Inuit / Lisa Stevenson -- The hyperbolic vegetarian : notes on a fragile subject in Gujarat / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi -- The obligation to receive : the countertransference, the ethnographer, Protestants, and proselytization in North India / Leo Coleman -- Encounter and suspicion in Tanzania / Sally Falk Moore -- Encounters with the mother-tongue : speech, translation, and interlocution in post-Cold War German repatriation / Stefan Senders -- Institutional encounters : identification and anonymity in Russian addiction treatment (and ethnography) / Eugene Raikhel -- Fieldwork experience, collaboration, and interlocution : the "metaphysics of presence" in encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat / John Borneman -- Afterthoughts : the experience and agony of fieldwork / Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008025401
ISBN9780520257757 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520257758 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520257764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0520257766 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN 346 .B443 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold