The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and LifeISBN: 978-1-4051-6981-3
Paperback
328 pages
August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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"There are some fabulous papers in here: thought provoking, stimulating, well-written, clever papers." (Anthropological Forum, July 2009)
"Eye opening, provocative, and politically charged, this timely volume will change the ways you think about objects of knowledge and the means and ethics of knowing."João Biehl, Princeton University
"With a multi-faceted play on the concept of shadow, these fine
essays together redeem and clarify the so-called reflexive turn in
anthropology, showing how the deeply personal in fieldwork is
integral to the kind of quirky curiosity on which ethnographic
knowledge so distinctively depends."
George Marcus, University of California, Irvine
"With uncommon candor, the remarkable ethnographers of The
Shadow Side of Fieldwork interrogate some of the most pressing
ethical and theoretical issues of writing culture in the present
moment. Their often moving accounts of close encounters with
themselves in their fieldwork contexts, and their understanding of
how these encounters shape anthropology’s project of ethical
connection with persons and worlds beyond, and within, our own,
invites the discipline into new realms of inquiry, and excites
deeper engagement with the paradoxes and anxieties of
intersubjective research. A remarkable undertaking, all
told."
Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College