Centralizing Fieldwork

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.

• Chapter 1. Centralizing FieldworkJeremy MacClancy and Agustín FuentesChapter 2. The Do’s and Don’ts of FieldworkGeoffrey A. HarrisonChapter 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist: Mental Journeys of a FieldworkerVolker SommerChapter 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern MadagascarRobert W. SussmanChapter 5. Problem Animals or Problem People? Ethics, Politics and Practice or Conflict between Community Perspectives and Fieldwork on ConservationPhyllis C. LeeChapter 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology: Fieldwork Practices and Mutual BenefitsJuichi YamagiwaChapter 7. Lost in Translation: Field Primatology, Culture, and Interdisciplinary ApproachesNobuyuki KutsukakeChapter 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork: Context and PracticeAgustín FuentesChapter 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community EngagementMark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-BrickChapter 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative: Why Biological Anthropologists do FieldworkLyliane RosettaChapter 11. Considerations on Field Methods used to assess Non-human Primate Feeding Behaviours and Human Food Intake in terms of nutritional requirementsClaude Marcel HladikChapter 12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field: A reflection on the Bioethics of Human Medical and DNA SurveysAlain FromentChapter 13. Field Schools in Central America: playing a pivotal role in the formation of modern field primatologistsKatherine C. MacKinnonChapter 14. The Narrator’s Stance: Story-telling and Science at Berenty ReserveAlison JollyChapter 15. Natural Homes: Primate Fieldwork and the Anthropological MethodPamela J. AsquithChapter 16. Popularizing Fieldwork: Examples from Primatology and Biological AnthropologyJeremy MacClancyIndex

“Anyone who has untaken fieldwork will relate to many of the experiences in this book and will subscribe to the recurring theme of field researchers needing to be resourceful and adaptable in the face of the unexpected. As a consequence, there should be interest from a broad readership,”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute