Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-743-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Studies of the Biosocial Society

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 book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology, to look critically at this key research practice. It is also an innovative way to further the comparative project within a broadly conceived anthropology, because it does not focus on common theory but on a common method. The questions asked by contributors are: what in the pursuit of fieldwork is common to all three disciplines, what is unique to each, how much is contingent, how much necessary? Can we generate well-grounded cross-disciplinary generalizations about this mutual research method, and are there are any telling differences? Co-edited by a social anthropologist and a primatologist, the book includes a list of distinguished and well-established contributors from primatology and biological anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macclancy, Jeremy

Fuentes, Agustín

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Centralizing Fieldwork

Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes

Chapter 2. The Do’s and Don’ts of Fieldwork

Geoffrey A. Harrison

Chapter 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist: Mental Journeys of a Fieldworker

Volker Sommer

Chapter 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar

Robert W. Sussman

Chapter 5. Problem Animals or Problem People? Ethics, Politics and Practice or Conflict between Community Perspectives and Fieldwork on Conservation

Phyllis C. Lee

Chapter 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology: Fieldwork Practices and Mutual Benefits

Juichi Yamagiwa

Chapter 7. Lost in Translation: Field Primatology, Culture, and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Nobuyuki Kutsukake

Chapter 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork: Context and Practice

Agustín Fuentes

Chapter 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement

Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick

Chapter 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative: Why Biological Anthropologists do Fieldwork

Lyliane Rosetta

Chapter 11. Considerations on Field Methods used to assess Non-human Primate Feeding Behaviours and Human Food Intake in terms of nutritional requirements

Claude Marcel Hladik

Chapter 12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field: A reflection on the Bioethics of Human Medical and DNA Surveys

Alain Froment

Chapter 13. Field Schools in Central America: playing a pivotal role in the formation of modern field primatologists

Katherine C. MacKinnon

Chapter 14. The Narrator’s Stance: Story-telling and Science at Berenty Reserve

Alison Jolly

Chapter 15. Natural Homes: Primate Fieldwork and the Anthropological Method

Pamela J. Asquith

Chapter 16. Popularizing Fieldwork: Examples from Primatology and Biological Anthropology

Jeremy MacClancy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fuentes, Agustín
Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Evolution of Human Behavior (2008) and Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology (2006) and Primates in Perspective. A Biological Anthropologist and Primatologist (co-ed., 2006). He has published widely on topics of human evolution, primate behavior, and human-primate interactions.

Macclancy, Jeremy
Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His numerous publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (2007) and Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines (ed., 2002). A Melanesianist and Europeanist, he has published widely on the anthropologies of art, food, sport, popular anthropology, and histories of anthropology.

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His numerous publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (2007) and Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines (ed., 2002). A Melanesianist and Europeanist, he has published widely on the anthropologies of art, food, sport, popular anthropology, and histories of anthropology.