Fieldwork Connections

The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America

Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, Ma Lunzy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2007
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-98668-5 (ISBN)

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Tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. This book addresses the process of ethnography and the dynamics of international and intercultural communication.

Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village in Liangshan, and a highly educated woman from an elite Nuosu/Chinese family. As decades of mutual ethnographic research unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic “truth.”

The book begins with short accounts of the process by which each of the authors became involved in anthropological field research. It then proceeds to describe the research itself, and the stories begin to connect as they become active collaborators. The scene shifts in the course of the narrative from China to America, and the relationship between the authors shifts from distant, wary, and somewhat hierarchical to close, egalitarian, and reciprocal.

The authors share their histories through personal stories, not technical analyses; their aim is to entertain while addressing the process of ethnography and the dynamics of international and intercultural communication.

Bamo Ayi is an anthropologist and scholar of comparative religion. She is deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department, State Nationalities Commission, and professor of philosophy at Central Nationalities University, Beijing. Stevan Harrell is an anthropologist and translator. He is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Ma Lunzy is an ethnologist, historian, author, and curator. He is deputy director of Liangshan Minorities Research Institute.

Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgments

Part One: Origins

1. Growing up Half Yi / Bamo Ayi

2. In the Shadow of the Han / Ma Lunzy

3. A White Guy Discovers Anthropology / Stevan Harrell

Part Two: China

4. Yinchang: My First Fieldwork, 1987-88 / Bamo Ayi

5. Getting Started in Southwest China, 1987-88 / Stevan Harrell

6. Chasing after Bimo, 1992-93 / Bamo Ayi

7. Getting Started Again, 1991 / Stevan Harrell

8. First Contact, 1991 / Ma Lunzy

9. Almost Real Fieldwork, 1993 / Stevan Harrell

10. In the Month of the Snake , 1993 / Ma Lunzy

11. Fieldwork with Muga, 1994 / Bamo Ayi

12. Getting Further Implicated, 1994 / Stevan Harrell

13. The Last Time I Led the Horse, 1994 / Ma Lunzy

14. The Bimo in the Modern World, 1994-95 / Bamo Ayi

Part Three: America

15. The First International Yi Conference, 1995 / Ma Lunzy

16. Seattle First Free Methodist Church, 1996-97 / Bamo Ayi

17. Collecting Mountain Patterns, 1999 / Ma Lunzy

18. Conceptualizing Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Bamo Qubumo

19. Celebrating Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Stevan Harrell

Epilogue: Fieldwork Connections and the Process of Ethnography / Stevan Harrell

Cast of Characters

Chinese and Nuosu Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.10.2007
Reihe/Serie	Fieldwork Connections
Zusatzinfo	56 photos
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-295-98668-9 / 0295986689
ISBN-13	978-0-295-98668-5 / 9780295986685
Zustand	Neuware