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Theorizing fieldwork in the humanities [electronic resource] : methods, reflections, and approaches to the global south / Shalini Puri, Debra A. Castillo, editors.

This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Puri, Shalini (Editor), Castillo, Debra A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Subjects:
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Southern Hemisphere.
Participant observation > Moral and ethical aspects > Southern Hemisphere.
Southern Hemisphere > Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Area studies.
Southern Hemisphere.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Conjectures on Undisciplined Research / Shalini Puri
  • pt. I Memory, Conflict, Contestation
  • 2. Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement / Shalini Puri
  • 3. Women's Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and Its Futures / Naminata Diabate
  • 4. Aesthetics in the Making of History: The Tebhaga Women's Movement in Bengal / Kavita Panjabi
  • pt. II Place, Performance, Practices
  • 5. Locating Palestine Within American Studies: Transitory Field Sites and Borrowed Methods / Jennifer Lynn Kelly
  • 6. Absent Performances: Distant Fieldwork on Social Movement Theater of Algeria and India / Neil Doshi
  • 7. Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil / Tori Holmes
  • 8. Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: An Ethnography of Literature / Rashmi Sadana
  • pt. III Medium and Form
  • 9. Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-based Research and History's Transnational Turn / Lara Putnam
  • 10. Lessons from the Space Between Languages: Notes on Poetry and Ethnography / Renato Rosaldo
  • pt. IV Institutions, Organizations, Collaborations
  • 11. Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa / Stephanie Newell
  • 12. Accidental Histories: Fieldwork Among the Maroons of Jamaica / Paul Youngquist
  • 13. Engagement and Pedagogy: Traveling with Students in Chiapas, Mexico / Debra A. Castillo.

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