Research Catalog

Title

Mementos, artifacts, and hallucinations from the ethnographer's tent / edited by Ron Emoff and David Henderson.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Emoff, Ron
• Henderson, David, 1968-

Description

vi, 202 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore, this volume contains personal, imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly context, but are a vital and engaging aspect of studying different cultures. Individual pieces vary from autobiographical accounts of ethnographers' experiences in the field to fictional narratives. Together they invite the reader to places across the globe, offering richly detailed portraits of informants, local cultures, and life in the field.

Subject

• Ethnology > Fieldwork
• Ethnologists > Biography
• Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain
• Ethnologues > Biographies
• Veldwerk
• Etnografie
• Antropologen

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Ron Emoff, David Henderson -- Samosir's dark rains / Andrew Causey -- Sacred secrets: lessons with Francisco / Katherine J. Hagedorn -- Wildness in the heart of town / Ron Emoff -- God of doorways / Kirin Narayan -- Touch of danger / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Leaving my father's house / Amitava Kumar -- Miguel Aleman and his dam / Ben Feinberg -- Battered wife's tale / Laurel Kendall -- Freak Street riots of '59 / David Henderson -- Last time Tere danced a rumba / Ruth Behar.

ISBN

• 0415935458 (acid-free paper)
• 9780415935456 (acid-free paper)
• 0415935466 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780415935463 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2002021967

OCLC

• 49493063
• SCSB-12723611

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library