At Home and in the Field
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At Home and in the Field

Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

At Home and in the Field

Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands

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Yes, you can access At Home and in the Field by Suzanne S. Finney,Mary Mostafanezhad,Guido Carlo Pigliasco,Forrest Wade Young in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Asian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780824855543
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Part 1.Real Encounters:Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork
  5. Introduction
  6. Tempting the Nāga
  7. An Anthropologist Behaving Badly
  8. Attacked in the Field
  9. A Question of Permission in Pohnpei
  10. Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things
  11. Part 2. Meaningful Encounters:Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field
  12. Introduction
  13. Fieldwork as Transformative Experience
  14. Fieldwork on Two Wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Ride
  15. The Cultural Power of Robots in Japan
  16. Encountering Maoist Propaganda in Pastoral Inner Mongolia
  17. When the Field is Your Home
  18. Part 3.Language Encounters:Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice
  19. Introduction
  20. Systemic Culture Shock
  21. Shóón Pakin, Sóóu Tittilap
  22. Talking with the Moai on Easter Island
  23. Blogging in Papua New Guinea
  24. Part 4. Identity Encounters:Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality
  25. Introduction
  26. Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-Wives, and Feeding the Ducks
  27. Manning Up
  28. Contested Belonging of North Korean Refugees in South Korea
  29. “You Filipino, Ya?”
  30. Part 5. Close Encounters:Marriage, Kinship, Social Networks
  31. Introduction
  32. Sorry, Wrong Number!
  33. The Invisible Firewalker
  34. “You Can Do It, Japan!”
  35. Head Candy/Gut Connection
  36. Part 6. Economic Encounters:Class, Development, Inequality
  37. Introduction
  38. Tales of the Talā (Dollar)
  39. Working-Class Hospitality and Etiquette in a Bowl of Rāmen Noodles in Tokyo, Japan
  40. Entering Moloka‘I Hawaiian Style
  41. Part 7.Green Encounters:Environment, Sustainability, Restoration
  42. Introduction
  43. From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening
  44. “They Came For Nature”
  45. The Forest of Contradictions
  46. He‘Eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops
  47. Part 8. Political Encounters:Power, Conflict, Resistance
  48. Introduction
  49. Narratives of the Vulval Curse in Bontok and Kalinga, Philippines
  50. Digitalizing the Wantok System in West Papua
  51. Embattled Stories of Occupied Hawai‘i
  52. Ta‘Aroa is Great, Good and Mā‘Ohi
  53. Part 9. Deep Encounters:Worldview, Religion, Spiritual Practices
  54. Introduction
  55. Tiptoeing among the Knowledge of the Bodies and the Bodies of Knowledge in Tonga
  56. Being and Time in Nagasaki, Japan
  57. Losing My Mind and Loving Mosquitoes, Crickets, and Other Jungle Inhabitants
  58. “Papa! What’s Money?”
  59. Epilogue
  60. Bibliography
  61. List of Contributors
  62. Index