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The Shadow Side of Fieldwork


The Shadow Side of Fieldwork

Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life
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von: Athena McLean, Annette Leibing

CHF 94.00

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780470766330
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 328

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<i>The</i> <i>Shadow Side of Fieldwork</i> draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter<br /> </li> <li>Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical, epistemological, and political) faced by researchers who examine the subjectivities inherent in their ethnographic insights<br /> </li> <li>Explores the value, and limitations, of addressing the personal in ethnographic research<br /> </li> <li>Includes a critical discussion of the anthropologist’s self in the field<br /> </li> <li>Introduces imaginative rigor to ethnographic research to heighten confidence in anthropological knowledge</li> </ul>
Dedication. <p>Acknowledgements.</p> <p>Contributors.</p> <p>Foreword: In the Shadows: Anthropological Encounters with Modernity: Gillian Goslinga (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Gelya Frank (University of Southern California).</p> <p>Introduction: 'Learn to Value your Shadow!': An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork: Annette Leibing (University of Montreal) and Athena McLean (Central Michigan University).</p> <p><b>Part I: Secrecy and Silence in the Ethnographic Encounter:.</b></p> <p>1. Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives as Intimate Ethnography: Alisse Waterston (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan State University).</p> <p>2. When Things Get Personal: Secrecy and the Production of Experience in Fieldwork: Anne M. Lovell (National Institute for Research on Health and Medicine, Marseille).</p> <p><b>Part II: Transmutations of Experience: Approaching the Reality of Shadows:.</b></p> <p>3. The Scene: Shadowing the Real: Vincent Crapanzano (CUNY Graduate Center).</p> <p>4. Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation: Thomas Csordas (University of California, San Diego).</p> <p><b>Part III: Epistemic Shadows:.</b></p> <p>5. Shining a Light into the Shadow of Death: Terminal Care Discourse and Practice in the Late Twentieth Century: Jason Szabo (Harvard University).</p> <p>6. The Hidden Side of the Moon or, 'Lifting Out' in Ethnography: Annette Leibing (University of Montreal).</p> <p><b>Part IV: The Politics of Ethnographic Encounter: Negotiating Power in the Shadow:.</b></p> <p>7. The Gray Zone: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley).</p> <p>8. Others within Us: Collective Identity, Positioning and Displacement: Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).</p> <p>9. Falling into Fieldwork: Lessons from a Desperate Search for Survival: Rose-Marie Chierici (SUNY Geneseo).</p> <p><b>Part V: Blurred Borders in the Ethnographic Encounter of Self and Other:.</b></p> <p>10. Field Research on the Run: One More (from) for the Road: Dimitris Papageorgiou (University of the Aegean).</p> <p>11. Intimate Travels through Otherness: Ellen Corin (McGill University).</p> <p>12. When the Border of Research and Personal Life become Blurred: Thorny Issues in Conducting Dementia Research: Athena McLean (Central Michigan University).</p> <p>Index</p>
"Important and invaluable ... .This book brings that totality out of the shadows and into the light. It is written in an accessible manner and should inform teaching of research methods at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level, being a core text in the latter. It should be a companion guide to us all." (<i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</i>, September 2009)<br /> <br /> <p>"There are some fabulous papers in here: thought provoking, stimulating, well-written, clever papers." (<i>Anthropological Forum</i>, July 2009)</p>
<b>Athena McLean</b> is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University<b>.</b> Dr. McLean’s research has focused on processes of knowledge production and contestation in the areas of aging and psychiatry. She has particular interests in dementia care and advocacy movements in mental health and aging. Her writings include 'Contradictions in the Social Production of Clinical Knowledge: The Case of Schizophrenia', in <i>Social Science and Medicine</i> (1990), and <i>The Person in Dementia: A Study of Nursing Home Care in the U.S.</i> (2007).<br /> <p><b>Annette Leibing</b> is an anthropologist with research interests in psychiatry, aging (especially Alzheimer), medications, and new medical technologies (such as stem cells). She has taught anthropology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and been a visiting professor in Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University (2002–05). She is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Montreal. Her latest book, co-edited with Lawrence Cohen, is <i>Thinking about Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility</i> (2006).</p>
<i>The Shadow Side of Fieldwork</i> draws attention to typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic research that nevertheless shape knowledge, texts, and methodologies. These are the invisible, unspoken, elusive, and mysterious areas where life and research overlap, private experiences and formal ethnography blur, and research boundaries seem to dissolve. <br /> <p>Containing essays by such variedluminaries as Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Vincent Crapanzano, among others, this book penetrates a variety of shadows in ethnographic field encounters. The authors recount personal and professional challenges that led them to confront the complex sources or paradoxical nature of their insights. By turning attention to the shadow sides of fieldwork and thoroughly exploring what they find there, the writers, as responsible researchers, strengthenconfidence in ethnographic knowledge. <i>The Shadow Side of Fieldwork</i> helps students and scholars to understand the submerged influences inherent in their research, and is essential reading for anyone involved in ethnographic fieldwork.</p>
"Eye opening, provocative, and politically charged, this timely volume will change the ways you think about objects of knowledge and the means and ethics of knowing." <br /> <i>João Biehl, Princeton University</i><br /> <br /> <p>"With a multi-faceted play on the concept of shadow, these fine essays together redeem and clarify the so-called reflexive turn in anthropology, showing how the deeply personal in fieldwork is integral to the kind of quirky curiosity on which ethnographic knowledge so distinctively depends."<br /> <i>George Marcus, University of California, Irvine</i></p> <p>"With uncommon candor, the remarkable ethnographers of <i>The Shadow Side of Fieldwork</i> interrogate some of the most pressing ethical and theoretical issues of writing culture in the present moment. Their often moving accounts of close encounters with themselves in their fieldwork contexts, and their understanding of how these encounters shape anthropology’s project of ethical connection with persons and worlds beyond, and within, our own, invites the discipline into new realms of inquiry, and excites deeper engagement with the paradoxes and anxieties of intersubjective research. A remarkable undertaking, all told."<br /> <i>Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College</i></p>

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