The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life

Athena McLean (Editor), Annette Leibing (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6130-5

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328 pages

August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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Dedication.

Acknowledgements.

Contributors.

Foreword: In the Shadows: Anthropological Encounters with Modernity: Gillian Goslinga (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Gelya Frank (University of Southern California).

Introduction: 'Learn to Value your Shadow!': An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork: Annette Leibing (University of Montreal) and Athena McLean (Central Michigan University).

Part I: Secrecy and Silence in the Ethnographic Encounter:.

1. Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives as Intimate Ethnography: Alisse Waterston (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan State University).

2. When Things Get Personal: Secrecy and the Production of Experience in Fieldwork: Anne M. Lovell (National Institute for Research on Health and Medicine, Marseille).

Part II: Transmutations of Experience: Approaching the Reality of Shadows:.

3. The Scene: Shadowing the Real: Vincent Crapanzano (CUNY Graduate Center).

4. Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation: Thomas Csordas (University of California, San Diego).

Part III: Epistemic Shadows:.

5. Shining a Light into the Shadow of Death: Terminal Care Discourse and Practice in the Late Twentieth Century: Jason Szabo (Harvard University).

6. The Hidden Side of the Moon or, 'Lifting Out' in Ethnography: Annette Leibing (University of Montreal).

Part IV: The Politics of Ethnographic Encounter: Negotiating Power in the Shadow:.

7. The Gray Zone: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley).

8. Others within Us: Collective Identity, Positioning and Displacement: Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

9. Falling into Fieldwork: Lessons from a Desperate Search for Survival: Rose-Marie Chierici (SUNY Geneseo).

Part V: Blurred Borders in the Ethnographic Encounter of Self and Other:.

10. Field Research on the Run: One More (from) for the Road: Dimitris Papageorgiou (University of the Aegean).

11. Intimate Travels through Otherness: Ellen Corin (McGill University).

12. When the Border of Research and Personal Life become Blurred: Thorny Issues in Conducting Dementia Research: Athena McLean (Central Michigan University).

Index