Fieldwork Under Fire
Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 1996
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-0-520-08993-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. The book uses theoretical, ethnographic and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions characterizing life in dangerous places. The essays describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate, and the often surprising creative strategies used by people to survive.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08993-8 (9780520089938)
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Persons
Carolyn Nordstrom, Visiting Scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is the editor of The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror (California, 1992). Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil (1989).
Content
INTRODUCTION
The Anthropology and Ethnography of Violence and Sociopolitical Conflict
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Carolyn Nordstrom
PRISONERS OF LOVE
With Genet in the Palestinian Field
Ted Swedenburg
RUMOR
The Beginning of the End
Anna Simons
ACCIDENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Witnessing the 1989 Chinese People's Movement
Frank N. Pieke
SEDUCTION AND PERSUASION
The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims
and Perpetrators of Violence
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
FEAR
Living in a State of Fear
Linda Green
CREATIVITY AND CHAOS
War on the Front Lines
Carolyn Nordstrom
RAPE ATTACK
Ethnography ofthe Ethnographer
Cathy Winkler, with Penelope] Hanke
COMING HOME
The Croatian War Experience
Maria B. Olujic
FACE
The Anthropologist as Terrorist
Joseba Zulaika
EPILOGUE
Ethnographic States of Emergency
Allen Feldman
ENDPIECES: THE DOING OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
Myrna Mack
Elizabeth Oglesby
Reflections on an Antropologia Comprometida:
Conversations with Ricardo Falla
Beatriz Manz
Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork:
Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast
Jeffrey A. Sluka
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
The Anthropology and Ethnography of Violence and Sociopolitical Conflict
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Carolyn Nordstrom
PRISONERS OF LOVE
With Genet in the Palestinian Field
Ted Swedenburg
RUMOR
The Beginning of the End
Anna Simons
ACCIDENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Witnessing the 1989 Chinese People's Movement
Frank N. Pieke
SEDUCTION AND PERSUASION
The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims
and Perpetrators of Violence
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
FEAR
Living in a State of Fear
Linda Green
CREATIVITY AND CHAOS
War on the Front Lines
Carolyn Nordstrom
RAPE ATTACK
Ethnography ofthe Ethnographer
Cathy Winkler, with Penelope] Hanke
COMING HOME
The Croatian War Experience
Maria B. Olujic
FACE
The Anthropologist as Terrorist
Joseba Zulaika
EPILOGUE
Ethnographic States of Emergency
Allen Feldman
ENDPIECES: THE DOING OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
Myrna Mack
Elizabeth Oglesby
Reflections on an Antropologia Comprometida:
Conversations with Ricardo Falla
Beatriz Manz
Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork:
Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast
Jeffrey A. Sluka
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX