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Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science.
Above all, this is a book about relationships—multi-layered relationships among people encountered in the field, the ethnographic relationship itself, with all its personal raw edges, and relationship with the land and even non-human realms.
Dialogue on Indigenous Studies and Fieldwork in India
Dialogue on Indigenous Studies and Fieldwork in India
Dialogue held at Oxford Brookes University on 16 June 2009 after a workshop on ‘Seeking Bridges between Anthropology and Indigenous Studies’.
GD: Dan, what is your interest in the Adivasis [indigenous and tribal peoples in India]? How did you come to the Adivasis?
DR: I first had an interaction with Adivasi people in 1992, when I visited a friend of mine who lived in West Bengal and I was thinking about possible research projects for my BA undergraduate degree in history of art. I had an interaction with people who made Chho masks—Chho being one of the masked dance genres specific to Purulia District and Seraikela District in West ...
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