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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.
Making Senses of the Organizations and the Experiences of Anthropological Practices in a University of India
Making Senses of the Organizations and the Experiences of Anthropological Practices in a University of India
Whenever contemporary scholars of our university engage in serious discussion about the past genres of anthropological practices in a guarded rhetoric, they set to leave a gloomy recent past (since mid-1960s) bequeathed from a blurry and legacious remote past (before mid-1960s). Their recapitulation would lead to a desirable future of anthropological practice which, nonetheless, would remain fraught with uncertainties. The ‘present’ lies in-between. Some common digressions of such discussions are the recollection of the experiences with the past faculty members, contemporary students and scholars of the department, interactions during fieldworks with them and all ...
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