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Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities : Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017 [©2016]

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Print version: Puri, S : Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities : Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2017

978-1-349-92834-7 ( : electronic bk.)

978-1-137-60331-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 970681459     

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HM206-208

302-307 ; 001.3     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Literature, Modern-20th century

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conjectures on Undisciplined Research -- Humanities Fieldwork and Anthropology -- Guiding Questions -- On Theory and Theorizing -- On Privilege -- Chapter Summaries -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Part I: Memory, Conflict, Contestation -- Chapter 2: Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Women's Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and Its Futures -- "You Didn't Pick Your Battles, Your Battles Picked You" -- Hunting and Uncovering -- Existing Archives and Their Limits -- Genital Power or Naked Agency? -- Hospitality in Comparative Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Aesthetics in the Making of History: The Tebhaga Women's Movement in Bengal -- Oral History and Subjectivity -- Aesthetics, Sensuous Cognition, and the Constitution of Subjectivity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Place, Performance, Practices -- Chapter 5: Locating Palestine Within American Studies: Transitory Field Sites and Borrowed Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Absent Performances: Distant Fieldwork on Social Movement Theater of Algeria and India -- National Allegories of the Theater -- From Text to Play -- Distant Fieldwork -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil -- Researching Favela Bloggers: Following the Content and Following the People -- Negotiating the Ethics of Visibility in Digital Culture Research -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: An Ethnography of Literature -- The Turn to Fieldwork -- Fieldwork in Delhi -- The Ethnography of Literature -- Conclusion -- Notes

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Bibliography -- Part III: Medium and Form -- Chapter 9: Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-based Research and History's Transnational Turn -- The Brief Heyday of International Fieldwork in History: 1970-2010? -- Transnational Topics and Digital Reach -- Place-based Research: Awkward Encounters and Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Lessons from the Space Between Languages: Notes on Poetry and Ethnography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV: Institutions, Organizations, Collaborations -- Chapter 11: Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Accidental Histories: Fieldwork Among the Maroons of Jamaica -- Into the Field -- Colonel Frank Does the Weather -- Ambient Knowledge -- Tracking Trelawneys -- Space Is the Place -- Postmodern Global Jamaican Indigene -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Engagement and Pedagogy: Traveling with Students in Chiapas, Mexico -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index