Anthropology: The Field and Fieldwork

The Field and Fieldwork:

Asad, Talal. 1986. "The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social ." In James Clifford and George Marcus eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnogoraphy. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 141-164. Asad, Talal ed. 1973. Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter. : Ithaca Press. Clifford, James. 1986. "Introduction: Partial Truths." In James Clifford and George Marcus eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of . Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-26. Dresch, Paul. 2000. "Wilderness of Mirrors: Truth and Vulnerability in Middle Eastern Fieldwork." In Paul Dresch and Wendy James eds., Anthropologists in a Wider World, pp. 109- 128. Dresch, Paul and Wendy James. 2000. "Introduction: Fieldwork and the Passage of Time." In Paul Dresch and Wendy James eds., Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research. Oxford: Berghan Books, pp. 1-26. Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson eds. 1997. Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Berkeley: University of California Press. (introduction) Guyer, Jane. 2004. "Anthropology in Area Studies." Annual Review of Anthropology 33: 499-523. (http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.anthr o.32.061002.093129) Herzfeld, Michael. 2001. "Performing Comparisons: Ethnography, Globetrotting, and the Spaces of Social Knowledge." Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 57, No. 3. (Autumn): 259-276. Hymes, Dell. 1972. Reinventing Anthropology. New York: Pantheon Books. Marcus, George E. Marcus. 1995. "Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography." Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24: 95-117. Marcus, George. 1998. Ethnography through Thick and Thin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Nash, June. 1975. "Nationalism and Fieldwork." Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 4: 225-245. Rabinow, Paul. 1986. "Representations are Social Facts: Modernity and Post- Modernity in Anthropology." In James Clifford and George Marcus eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnogoraphy. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 234-261. Salzman, Philip Carl. 1986. "Is Traditional Fieldwork Outmoded?" Current Anthropology, Vol. 27, No. 5. (December): 528-530.

Touchstones in Debates on the Field and Fieldwork:

Benedict, Ruth. 1967 [1946]. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan. 1969 [1940]. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1976. Tristes Tropiques. Translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1984 [1922]. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. Preface by Sir James G. Frazer. ; Preface by Sir James G. Frazer: prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Press. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1989. A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Preface by Valetta Malinowska; Introduction by Raymond Firth. London: Athlone Press.

Assessments of the Middle East as a Culture Area:

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1989. "Zones of Theory in the Anthropology of the Arab World." Annual Review of Anthropology 18: 267-306. Cohen, Erik. 1977. "Recent Anthropological Studies of Middle Eastern Communities and Ethnic Groups." Annual Review of Anthropology 6: 315-347. Fernea, Robert. 1975. "Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: A Critical Assessment" Annual Review of Anthropology 4: 183-206. Lindholm, Charles. 1995. "The New Middle Eastern Ethnography." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1 (4): 805-820.

Ethnographies of Morocco Prominent in the 1980s Reflexive Turn:

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1980. Tuhami, Portrait of a Moroccan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dwyer, Keven. 1982. Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Rabinow, Paul. 2007 [1977]. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, with a foreword by Robert N. Bellah ; afterword by Pierre Bourdieu. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Reflexivity:

Davies, Charlotte. 1999. Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others. London: Routledge. Escobar, Arturo. 1993. "The Limits of Reflexivity: Politics in Anthropology's Post- "Writing Culture" Era." Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 49, No. 4. (Winter): 377-391. Geertz, Clifford. 1988. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Cambridge: Polity. Myerhoff, Barbara, and Jay Ruby, eds. 1982. The Cracked Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Robertson, Jennifer. 2002. "Reflexivity Redux: A Pithy Polemic on 'Positionality'." Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 4. (Autumn, 2002), pp. 785-792. Sangren, P. Steven. 1988. "Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: 'Postmodernism' and the Social Reproduction of Texts." Current Anthropology, Vol. 29, No. 3. (June): 405-435. Watson, Graham. 1987. "Make Me Reflexive, but Not Yet: Strategies for Managing Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse." Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 43, No. 1. (Spring): 29- 41.

Fieldwork Manuals:

DeWalt, Kathleen and Billie DeWalt. 2002. Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers. New York: Altamira Press. Robben, Antonius and Jeffrey Sluka eds. 2006. Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. Fife, Wayne. 2005. Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.