Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology / / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 599.9
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Fieldwork; Physical anthropology - Fieldwork; Primates - Fieldwork; Primatology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FuentesAgustin MacClancyJeremy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Centralizing Fieldwork; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Centralizing Fieldwork; 2. The Dos and Don'ts of Fieldwork; 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist; 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar; 5. Problem Animals or Problem People?; 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology; 7. Lost in Translation; 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork; 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement; 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative ; 11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field; 13. Field Schools in Central America; 14. The Narrator's Stance; 15. Natural Homes; 16. Popularizing Fieldwork; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology, to look critically at this key research practice. It is also an innovative way to further the comparative project within a broadly conceived anthropology, because it does not focus on common theory but on a common method. The questions asked by
• Titolo autorizzato: Centralizing fieldwork
• ISBN: 1-84545-743-9; 1-84545-851-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910493683403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; v. 4.