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In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology's& and indeed today's& most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin's grave in Port Bou. The result is & Walter Benjamin's Grave,& a moving essay about the cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. It is the most recent of eight revelatory essays collected in this volume of the same name.& Looking over these essays written over the past decade,& writes Taussig, & I think what they share is a love of muted and defective storytelling as a form of analysis. Strange love indeed; love of the wound, love of the last gasp.& Although thematically these essays run the gamut& covering the monument and graveyard at Port Bou, discussions of peasant poetry in Colombia, a pact with the devil, the peculiarities of a shaman's body, transgression, the disappearance of the sea, New York City cops, and the relationship between flowers and violence& each shares Taussig's highly individual brand of storytelling, one that depends on a deep appreciation of objects and things as a way to retrieve even deeper philosophical and anthropological meanings. Whether he finds himself in Australia, Colombia, Manhattan, or Spain, in the midst of a book or a beach, whether talking to friends or staring at a monument, Taussig makes clear through these marvelous essays that materialist knowledge offers a crucial alternative to the increasingly abstract, globalized, homogenized, and digitized world we inhabit.Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin's grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the twentieth century's greatest cultural critic.

Anthropology --- Fieldwork --- Philosophy --- Benjamin, Walter, --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Fieldwork. --- Field work. --- Anthropology - Fieldwork. --- Anthropology -- Fieldwork. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology - General --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Anthropology - Philosophy --- Benjamin, Walter, - 1892-1940

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"Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The multiple voices resonating in the collection come from anthropologists in all walks of academia as well as outside of it. The chapters relate the contributor's first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions. This book thus provides a powerful introduction to lived experiences of contemporary fieldwork"--

Anthropology --- Ethnology --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Fieldwork --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Fieldwor --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Ethnology - Fieldwork

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A study of how doing field research submerged in a different culture impacts one's sense of identity. ""Wengle documents convincingly, and with a great deal of sensitivity to and empathy for his informants, what fieldworking ethnographers undergo while anthropologizing. . . . If one wants to understand what kind of data ethnographers generate, what kind of facts they notice, what kinds of events they record (rather than others that they could have generated, noticed or recorded, but did not) reading Wengle's book is indispensable. It goes a long way toward doing awa

Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Psychological aspects. --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology - General --- Human beings --- Psychological aspects --- Fieldwork --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Field research, the collection of information outside of a lab or workplace setting, requires skills and knowledge that are not typically taught in the classroom. Fieldwork demands exploratory inquisitiveness, empathy to encourage interview subjects to trust the researcher, and sufficient aptitude to work professionally and return home safely. The Field Researcher's Handbook provides a practical guide to planning and executing fieldwork and presenting the results. David Danelo has written this book based on his experience conducting field research in over fifty countries as well as from teaching others a holistic approach to field research. His knowledge of how to be observant and operate safely in any environment was further enhanced by his time as a combat veteran in the US Marine Corps. This book introduces the skills that new researchers will need in the field, including anthropology, travel logistics planning, body language recognition, interview preparation, storytelling, network development, and situational awareness. Danelo also discusses ethical considerations and how to recognize personal biases. This handbook intended for researchers in a variety of academic disciplines but also government, think-tank, and private-sector researchers.

Social sciences --- Anthropology --- Research --- Fieldwork --- Methodology --- Social sciences - Fieldwork --- Social sciences - Research --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Research - Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Research - Methodology --- Social science research --- Fieldwork. --- Research. --- Methodology. --- Field work

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'I Swear I Saw This' records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through 40 years of travels in Colombia.

Anthropology --- Anthropological illustration. --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Illustration, Anthropological --- Scientific illustration --- Fieldwork. --- Methodology. --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Anthropological illustration --- Fieldwork --- Methodology --- Anthropologie --- Illustration anthropologique --- Recherche sur le terrain --- Méthodologie --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Anthropology - Methodology