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The Secret Lives of Anthropologists: Lessons from the Field book cover

1st Edition

The Secret Lives of Anthropologists Lessons from the Field

Edited By Bonnie L. Hewlett Copyright 2020
376 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 "secret" or taboo. From anthropologists just starting out to those with over forty years in the field, these... Read more

Introduction

Bonnie L. Hewlett

Part 1: Paths into the Field

1. Learning Fields

Vishvajit Pandya

2. Stumbling Around the Sacred: Some Personal Observations

Benjamin Grant Purzycki

3. From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: Searching for a Field Site as an Evolutionary Anthropologist

Nicole Hess

Part 2: Gendered Relations and Other Challenges in the Field

4. Doing Ethnomusicological Research as a White Woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic

Susanne Fürniss

5. A Boss, a Mother, a Red Antelope, and All the Things in Between

Sylvie Le Bomin

6. Culturally Appropriate Solutions to Fieldwork Challenges Among the Mbendjele BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin

Daša Bombjaková

Part 3: The Observer and the Observed: The Metamorphosis of Research, Methods, and the Researcher

7. My Life in the School of Hard Knocks: How an Aspiring Anthropologist Became a White Cameroonian

Robert Moïse

8. Spā߀min, Ethnographers and Mixed Methods

Robert Quinlan

9. Mothering in the Field: Participant Observation on Cultural Transmission

Victoria Reyes-García

10. The Quiet Joy of Fieldworkers in the Kalahari

Akira Takada

Part 4: Dangerous Fields

11. The Origins of Surviving Fieldwork

Nancy Howell

12. When All Hell Breaks Loose: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork Amid Gunplay, Catastrophe, and Mayhem

J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat

Part 5: Ethics, Advocacy, and Other Everyday Moral Dilemmas of Research

13. Surviving Agta Fieldwork

Thomas N. Headland with Janet D. Headland

14. Do You Consent to Participate in the Research Study?

Paul Verdu

15. Who Owns the Poop? And Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights

Alyssa N. Crittenden

16. But What if the "Field" is a Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory? How it Happened, What it’s Like. The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly

James J. McKenna

Appendix: Regional Packing List and Other Favorite Items in the Field

Biography

Bonnie L. Hewlett is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University, Vancouver. Her work focuses on topics relating to bio-cultural contexts of infectious diseases, hunter-gatherers, adolescent development, social learning, and the health and experiences of Ethiopian orphans, birthmothers and fathers. She has conducted field research in Gabon, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Central African Republic.

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