Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction- Awkward Spaces, Productive Places xi
• Part I - Positioned Engagements 1
• Chapter 1 - Awkward Intimacies- Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico* 3
• Chapter 2 - Disclosure and Interaction in a Monastery 18
• Chapter 3 - Going beyond "The West" and "The Rest" Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand 32
• Chapter 4 - Multiple Roles, Statuses, and Allegiances Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture* 46
• Chapter 5 - "He''s Not a Spy; He''s One of Us" Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-Class Setting 59
• Chapter 6 - Dissent and Consent Negotiating the Adoption Triangle 71
• Chapter 7 - Doing Ethnography in "One''s Own Ethnic Community" the Experience of an Awkward Insider 82
• Chapter 8 - "And I Can''t Feel at Home in This World Anymore" Fieldwork in Two Settings 95
• Part II - Ethical Engagements 109
• Chapter 9 - "Yo, Bitch* …" and Other Challenges Bringing High-Risk Ethnography into the Discourse 111
• Chapter 10 - Reflections on Fieldwork among Kenyan Heroin Users 127
• Chapter 11 - Closed Doors Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography 140
• Chapter 12 - Living in Sheds Suicide, Friendship, and Research among the Tiwi 153
• Chapter 13 - Performing and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions 168
• Part III - Multi-Sited Engagements 183
• Chapter 14 - Not Quite at Home Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-Ease 185
• Chapter 15 - Multi-Sited Transnational Ethnography and the Shifting Construction of Fieldwork 201
• Chapter 16 - Multi-Sited Methodologies "Homework" in Australia, Fiji, and Kiribati 216
• References 235
• Contributors 259
• Index 263