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15. Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field

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© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know?
  5. Introduction 9
  6. 1. Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11
  7. 2. Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27
  8. Part II. The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers
  9. Introduction 43
  10. 3. Malaria and Spider- Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three- Year- Old 47
  11. 4. Birthing in the Field 62
  12. 5. Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76
  13. Part III. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support
  14. Introduction 89
  15. 6. Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91
  16. 7. Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student- Mom and Her Support Community 108
  17. 8. Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124
  18. Part IV. This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood
  19. Introduction 135
  20. 9. Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139
  21. 10. Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155
  22. 11. Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171
  23. Part V. What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies
  24. Introduction 181
  25. 12. Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185
  26. 13. “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201
  27. 14. Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222
  28. 15. Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239
  29. Part VI. Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything!
  30. Introduction 251
  31. 16. “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative that Presumes that Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253
  32. 17. Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264
  33. Conclusion 272
  34. Acknowledgments 281
  35. Notes on Contributors 283
  36. Index 293
Mothering from the Field
This chapter is in the book Mothering from the Field
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978800601-021

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know?
  5. Introduction 9
  6. 1. Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11
  7. 2. Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27
  8. Part II. The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers
  9. Introduction 43
  10. 3. Malaria and Spider- Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three- Year- Old 47
  11. 4. Birthing in the Field 62
  12. 5. Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76
  13. Part III. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support
  14. Introduction 89
  15. 6. Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91
  16. 7. Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student- Mom and Her Support Community 108
  17. 8. Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124
  18. Part IV. This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood
  19. Introduction 135
  20. 9. Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139
  21. 10. Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155
  22. 11. Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171
  23. Part V. What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies
  24. Introduction 181
  25. 12. Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185
  26. 13. “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201
  27. 14. Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222
  28. 15. Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239
  29. Part VI. Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything!
  30. Introduction 251
  31. 16. “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative that Presumes that Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253
  32. 17. Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264
  33. Conclusion 272
  34. Acknowledgments 281
  35. Notes on Contributors 283
  36. Index 293
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