6. The “Work” of Ethnographic Fieldwork

Chapters in this book

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