Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

Published by Berghahn Books 2011

Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

Edited by: Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes

Volume 4 in the series Studies of the Biosocial Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458515

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About this book

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology, to look critically at this key research practice. It is also an innovative way to further the comparative project within a broadly conceived anthropology, because it does not focus on common theory but on a common method. The questions asked by contributors are: what in the pursuit of fieldwork is common to all three disciplines, what is unique to each, how much is contingent, how much necessary? Can we generate well-grounded cross-disciplinary generalizations about this mutual research method, and are there are any telling differences? Co-edited by a social anthropologist and a primatologist, the book includes a list of distinguished and well-established contributors from primatology and biological anthropology.

Author / Editor information

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His numerous publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (2007) and Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines (ed., 2002). A Melanesianist and Europeanist, he has published widely on the anthropologies of art, food, sport, popular anthropology, and histories of anthropology.

Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Evolution of Human Behavior (2008) and Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology (2006) and Primates in Perspective. A Biological Anthropologist and Primatologist (co-ed., 2006). He has published widely on topics of human evolution, primate behavior, and human-primate interactions.

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His numerous publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (2007) and Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines (ed., 2002). A Melanesianist and Europeanist, he has published widely on the anthropologies of art, food, sport, popular anthropology, and histories of anthropology.

Reviews

“Anyone who has untaken fieldwork will relate to many of the experiences in this book and will subscribe to the recurring theme of field researchers needing to be resourceful and adaptable in the face of the unexpected. As a consequence, there should be interest from a broad readership,” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Centralizing Fieldwork Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Dos and Don’ts of Fieldwork Geoffrey A. Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist: Mental Journeys of a Fieldworker Volker Sommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar Robert W. Sussman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
5. Problem Animals or Problem People? Ethics, Politics and Practice or Conflict between Community Perspectives and Fieldwork on Conservation Phyllis C. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology: Fieldwork Practices and Mutual Benefits Juichi Yamagiwa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
7. Lost in Translation: Field Primatology, Culture, and Interdisciplinary Approaches Nobuyuki Kutsukake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork: Context and Practice Agustín Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement: Experiences from the Gambia and Afghanistan Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative: Why Biological Anthropologists do Fieldwork Lyliane Rosetta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements Claude Marcel Hladik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field: Reflections on the Bioethics of Human Medical and DNA Surveys Alain Froment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
13. Field Schools in Central America: Playing a Pivotal Role in the Formation of Modern Field Primatologists Katherine C. MacKinnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
14. The Narrator’s Stance: Story-telling and Science at Berenty Reserve Alison Jolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
15. Natural Homes: Primate Fieldwork and the Anthropological Method Pamela J. Asquith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
16. Popularizing Fieldwork: Examples from Primatology and Biological Anthropology Jeremy MacClancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 310
Keywords: Theory and Methodology

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Published: December 1, 2010
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