
Time and the Field
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"...deserves to be read; above all by advanced students who are preparing for fieldwork." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)"Time and the Field is an original and colorful collection of articles, approaching the overall topic from various perspectives, all illustrated with vivid accounts from the field. They cover a broad range of issues and comprehension, from reflections on methodology, descriptions of specific temporalities over theoretical experimentations (surfacing, trans-temporal hinges) to analysis about temporal constituencies of the ethnographic field... The book is surely a valuable inspiration for young anthropologists preparing their first fieldwork as well as for experienced fieldworkers motivating them to look at their data and practice from a different, time-inspired angle." * Anthropos
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Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen
Chapter 1. Limits and Limitlessness: Exploring Time in Scientific Practice
Antonia Walford
Chapter 2. The Time of the State and the Temporality of the Gavman in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
Steffen Dalsgaard
Chapter 3. Out of Conclusion: On Recurrence and Open-Endedness in Life and Analysis
Anne Line Dalsgaard and Martin Demant Frederiksen
Chapter 4. Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Ton Otto
Chapter 5. Surfacing Moves: Spatial-Timings of Senior Home Care
Peter A. Lutz
Chapter 6. Boredom, Rhythm, and the Temporality of Ritual: Recurring Fieldwork in the Brazilian Candomble
Inger Sjorslev
Chapter 7. Episodic Fieldwork, Updating, and Sociability
Michael Whyte
Chapter 8. Trans-temporal Hinges: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia
Morten Axel Pedersen and Morten Nielsen
Afterword: Ethnography between the Virtue of Patience and the Anxiety of Belatedness Once Coevalness Is Embraced
George Marcus
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