Del 4 - Studies of the Biosocial Society

Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvJeremy MacClancy,Agustín Fuentes,Agustin Fuentes,Jeremy Macclancy

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-01-20
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies of the Biosocial Society
Antal sidor310
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845456900

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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. Agustin 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.

Chapter 1. Centralizing Fieldwork Jeremy MacClancy and Agustin 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 Agustin 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