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At Home and in the Field : Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands by Suzanne S Finney; Mary Mostafanezhad; Guido Carlo Pigliasco; Forrest Wade Young; Project Muse is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of "homework"--ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home--the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between "insiders" and "outsiders." The obligations that fieldwork engenders among researchers and local communities are exemplified by contributors who are often socially engaged with the peoples and places they work. In its focus on Asia and the Pacific Islands, the collection offers ethnographic updates on topics that range from ritual money burning in China to the militarization of Hawai'i to the social role of text messages in identifying marriage partners in Vanuatu to the cultural power of robots in Japan. Thought provoking, sometimes humorous, these cultural encounters will resonate with readers and provide valuable talking poin

Who reads At Home and in the Field : Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands?

Author

Suzanne S Finney; Mary Mostafanezhad; Guido Carlo Pigliasco; Forrest Wade Young; Project Muse

Publisher

Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824868215

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Anthropology