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5. The Dracula Ballet
A Tale of Fieldwork in Politics
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Nahal Naficy
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword: Renewable Ethnography vii
- Introduction: Notes toward an Ethnographic Memoir of Supervising Graduate Research through Anthropology’s Decades of Transformation 1
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Part 1. REFLECTIONS ON FIRST FIELDWORK AND AFTER
- 1. Phantom Epistemologies 37
- 2. Ethnographic Remnants: Range and Limits of the Social Method 52
- 3. On the Ethics of Unusable Data 73
- 4. Caught! The Predicaments of Ethnography in Collaboration 89
- 5. The Dracula Ballet 113
- 6. The “Work” of Ethnographic Fieldwork 129
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Part .2 ON THE ETHICS OF BEING AN ANTHROPOLOGIST (NOW)
- 7. The Ethics of Fieldwork as an Ethics of Connectivity, or The Good Anthropologist (Isn’t What She Used to Be) 145
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Part 3. TEACHING FIELDWORK THAT IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
- 8. Figuring Out Ethnography 167
- 9. Collaboration, Coordination, and Composition 184
- Bibliography 207
- Contributors 221
- Index 223
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword: Renewable Ethnography vii
- Introduction: Notes toward an Ethnographic Memoir of Supervising Graduate Research through Anthropology’s Decades of Transformation 1
-
Part 1. REFLECTIONS ON FIRST FIELDWORK AND AFTER
- 1. Phantom Epistemologies 37
- 2. Ethnographic Remnants: Range and Limits of the Social Method 52
- 3. On the Ethics of Unusable Data 73
- 4. Caught! The Predicaments of Ethnography in Collaboration 89
- 5. The Dracula Ballet 113
- 6. The “Work” of Ethnographic Fieldwork 129
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Part .2 ON THE ETHICS OF BEING AN ANTHROPOLOGIST (NOW)
- 7. The Ethics of Fieldwork as an Ethics of Connectivity, or The Good Anthropologist (Isn’t What She Used to Be) 145
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Part 3. TEACHING FIELDWORK THAT IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
- 8. Figuring Out Ethnography 167
- 9. Collaboration, Coordination, and Composition 184
- Bibliography 207
- Contributors 221
- Index 223