Fieldwork Connections The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America |
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| Author:
| Bamo, Ayi
Harrell, Stevan
Lunzy, Ma |
| ISBN: | 978-0-295-98668-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village in Liangshan, and a highly educated woman from an elite Nuosu/Chinese family. As decades of mutual ethnographic research unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the...
More DescriptionFieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village in Liangshan, and a highly educated woman from an elite Nuosu/Chinese family. As decades of mutual ethnographic research unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic "truth."