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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.
Story of My Research in Bhutan
Story of My Research in Bhutan
The story of my research is bound to be biographical and for that I may not have to be apologetic. In fact, it may answer a number of questions, which I had been asked by fellow academics and readers of my books on Bhutan. To begin with, I have been asked what made me interested in study on Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepalese, and Himalayas at large. I have a very long answer to this simple question and that is what I propose to do over here. Moreover, I shall be dealing with my academic preparation before launching the field study, the type of data I could collect and the research output I managed to publish. ...
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