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

Fuentes, Agustin ; MacClancy, Jeremy

New York : Berghahn Books [2011], 2011

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 298 pages) : illustrations, map

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Centralizing fieldwork. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-84545-851-6 (electronic bk.); 978-1-84545-851-5 (electronic bk.)

978-1-84545-690-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-84545-690-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-84545-743-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-84545-743-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-84545-690-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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GN50.8

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bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC 002020 ; bisacsh: SOC019000

LOC-SH: Physical anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Congresses ; Primates -- Fieldwork -- Congresses ; Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Congresses

MeSH: Anthropology, Physical ; Animals, Wild ; Data Collection ; Empirical Research ; Primates ; Anthropology, Physical ; Animals, Wild ; Data Collection ; Empirical Research ; Primates

SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Physical ; Conference papers and proceedings

Centralizing fieldwork / Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes -- The dos and don'ts of fieldwork / Geoffrey A. Harrison -- The anthropologist as a primatologist : mental journeys of a fieldworker / Volker Sommer -- Primate fieldwork and its human contexts in southern Madagascar / Robert W. Sussman -- Problem animals or problem people? : ethics, politics and practice or conflict between community perspectives and fieldwork on conservation / Phyllis C. Lee -- Ecological anthropology and primatology : fieldwork practices and mutual benefits / Juichi Yamagiwa -- Lost in translation : field primatology, culture, and interdisciplinary approaches / Nobuyuki Kutsukake -- Measuring meaning and understanding in primatological and biological anthropology fieldwork : context and practice / Agustín Fuentes -- Fieldwork as research process and community engagement / Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick -- Framing the quantitative within the qualitative : why biological anthropologists do fieldwork / Lyliane Rosetta -- Considerations on field methods used to assess non-human primate feeding behaviours and human food intake in terms of nutritional requirements / Claude Marcel Hladik -- Anthropobiological surveys in the field : a reflection on the bioethics of human medical and DNA surveys / Alain Froment -- Field schools in Central America : playing a pivotal role in the formation of modern field primatologists / Katherine C. MacKinnon -- The narrator's stance : story-telling and science at Berenty Reserve / Alison Jolly -- Natural homes : primate fieldwork and the anthropological method / Pamela J. Asquith -- Popularizing fieldwork : examples from primatology and biological anthropology / Jeremy MacClancy.

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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 comparative investigation looks critically at this research practice