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<p>&nbsp; Unlike anthropologists who conduct their fieldwork in one cultural setting, Choong Soon Kim has alternated between two distinct worlds for more than thirty years. He is an anthropologist whose research has focused not only on people in his homeland of Korea but also on rural whites and African Americans in the American South and on American industrial workers and the Japanese entrepreneurs who employ them.<br> &nbsp; <i>One Anthropologist, Two Worlds</i> is both the memoir of a fieldworker and a cultural analysis of a transplanted anthropologist who has worked extensively in Asia and America. In telling how he has shifted from one milieu to another, Kim also describes how he has gone from being an insider to an outsider--and from a marginal to a reflexive anthropologist.<br> &nbsp; Kim's account is a unique case study in anthropological fieldwork. He develops a broadened approach to anthropology that encompasses both eastern and wesstern outlooks as he describes cultural changes in both worlds. He addresses such current debates as personal identity, marginality, globalization, and the reflexivity of anthropological fieldworkers, and he discusses these issues with greater

Author

Choong Soon Kim

Publisher

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572331884

Subjects

Anthropology, Memoir, Science