ISBN:
9781315144580
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 358 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The secret lives of anthropologists
DDC:
301.0723
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Anthropologie
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Ethnologie
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Feldforschung
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: pulling back the curtain -- A few secrets I wish I'd known -- Paths into the field -- Gendered relations and other challenges in the field -- The observer and the observed: the metamorphosis of research, methods, and the researcher -- Dangerous fields -- Ethics, advocacy, and other everyday moral dilemmas of research -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I -- Paths into the field -- 1 Learning fields -- The long walk into the field -- Learning from the field -- Concluding remarks -- Questions for reflection -- Note -- References -- 2 Stumbling around the sacred: some personal observations -- Introduction -- Why I might study religion -- Luck, fast and dumb -- Studying the sacred -- On qualifications and authenticity -- Relax, it's only sacred -- My rebirth -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- 3 From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: searching for a field site as an evolutionary anthropologist -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- Part II -- Gendered relations and other challenges in the field -- 4 Doing ethnomusicological research as a white woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic -- Being a woman in the field -- Doing a man's job -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- 5 A boss, a mother, a red antelope, and all the things in between -- Introduction -- Am I really a woman? -- To be "patron" and becoming "ma fille" -- The ethnomusicologist and the xylophone mother bar -- White girl, mother, grandmother, and novice in Gabon -- My Gabon modus vivendi -- "La blanche" and the bishop -- Mother Hélène's daughter -- The novice and the Myene people -- Conclusion.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315144580
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144580
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315144580
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315144580
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