Anthropological Fieldwork

Reviews / Votes

'This fine volume succeeds in being both deeply engaging and theoretically sophisticated. It provides insights into the emotional investments that go into all stages of producing ethnography-writing as well as fieldwork. Individual case-studies are framed by appreciation of anthropology's past as well as suggestions as to where the discipline might go in the future. The book is a vital addition to the literature on how anthropologists construct-and are constructed by-their fields.'- Professor Simon Coleman, University of Sussex.'It is still far from clear how fieldwork experience makes knowledge [...] The proposition of this important new volume is that serious attention must be paid to the way in which ethnographic facts travel from field to page via an internal terrain: the complex fabric of individual subjectivity, and the imagination of social relations. Fieldwork, more than a participant observation, is a relational reflection. It is an emotional labour, dealing in the dynamics of internalised past and present relations. Thanks to the contributors to this volume, a real openness is visited upon the anthropological endeavour: 'the field' and 'knowledge' become perceptual, cognitive and emotional trajectories.' - Professor Nigel Rapport, University of St. Andrews; Author of The Prose and the Passion: Anthropology, Literature and the Writing of E. M. Forster''[T]his volume is thought provoking, well-written and contains useful discussions for anthropologists.' - Edward Dutton, Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 1 (2012), 55-57, p. 57.