Being There

C.W. Watson teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is editor (with Roy F. Ellen) of Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia (1994) and is the author of Kinship, Property and Inheritance in Kerinci, Central Sumatra (1994).

• Introduction1. Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the ‘Self’ in Ethnographic Writing (Italy) by Cris Shore (Goldsmiths College, London)2. Location and Relocation: Home, ‘The Field’ and Anthropological Ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) by Katy Gardner (University of Sussex)3. On Ethnographic Experience: Formative and Informative (Nias, Indonesia) by Andrew Beatty (Wolfson College, Oxford)4. Learning to be Friends: Participant Observation amongst English School children (the North of England) by Allison James (University of Hull)5. The End in the Beginning: New Year at Rizong (The Himalayas)by Anna Grimshaw (University of Manchester)6. A Diminishment: a Death in the Field (Kerinci, Indonesia) by C.W. Watson List of contributorsIndex

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