Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology

Publication/Creation:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes

Series Titles:

Studies of the Biosocial Society ; volume 4
Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 4.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Fuentes, Agustin
MacClancy, Jeremy

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Ethnology--Fieldwork
Physical anthropology--Fieldwork
Primates--Fieldwork
Primatology

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Centralizing Fieldwork; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Centralizing Fieldwork; 2. The Dos and Don'ts of Fieldwork; 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist; 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar; 5. Problem Animals or Problem People?; 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology; 7. Lost in Translation; 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork; 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement; 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative
11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field; 13. Field Schools in Central America; 14. The Narrator's Stance; 15. Natural Homes; 16. Popularizing Fieldwork; Contributors; Index

Summary:

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology, to look critically at this key research practice. It is also an innovative way to further the comparative project within a broadly conceived anthropology, because it does not focus on common theory but on a common method. The questions asked by

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

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Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937014055002486

ISBN:

1-84545-743-9
1-84545-851-6

OCLC Number:

733040226

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.1515/9781845458515