The Uncaring, Intricate World
A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985
Seiten
2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0406-6 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0406-6 (ISBN)
Anthropologist Pamela Reynolds shares her fieldwork diary from her time spent in Zimbabwe's Zambezi valley during the 1980s, in which she recounts the difficulties, pleasures, and contradictions of studying the daily lives of the Tonga people three decades after their forced displacement.
In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate World Reynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.
In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate World Reynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.
Pamela Reynolds is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, and author of War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State. Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University, Shanghai.
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi
Introduction 1
A Field Diary 31
Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173
Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175
Glossary 179
Bibliography 185
Index 189
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-0406-1 / 1478004061 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-0406-6 / 9781478004066 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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