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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM
VOLUME 22, NUMBER
1 JUNE 1997
Special Issue
Field Work Revisited: Changing Contexts of Ethnographic
Practice in the Era of Globalization
Compiled and Edited by Joel Robbins and Sandra Bamford
CONTENTS
Introduction
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Sandra Bamford and Joel Robbins 3
"When Do You Think the World Will End?": Globalization,
Apocalypticism, and the Moral Perils of Fieldwork in
"Last New Guinea"
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Joel Robbins 6
Pinching the Crocodile's Tongue: Affinity and the Anxieties of
Influence in Fieldwork
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Michael Lambek 31
Fieldwork: The Dance of Power
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Emmanuel D. Tehindrazanarivelo 54
Fieldwork in the Postcommunity
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Sherry B. Ortner 61
Globalizing Method: The Problems of Doing Ethnography in
Transnational Spaces
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Paul Stoller 81
There Are No Peripheries to Humanity: Northern Alaska Nuclear
Dumping and the Inupiat's Search for Redress
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Edith Turner 95
Beyond the Global: Intimacy and Distance in Contemporary Fieldwork
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Sandra Bamford 110
Discussion: Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization
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Arjun Appadurai 115
WINNER OF THE 1996 FICTION CONTEST
A Feast of Mangoes
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Simone Isadora Flynn 119
COWINNERS OF THE 1996 POETRY CONTEST
The Mountaineer
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Tara Waters Lumpkin 125
Palm Sundary
Good Friday
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Keith Smith 126
BOOK REVIEWS
In Search of the Cultural Supplement (A Space on the Side of the Road:
Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America, Kathleen Stewart)
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John D. Dorst 127
Interpreting "Indigenous Articulations" (Boundaries and Passages: Rule
and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition, Ann Fienup-Riordan)
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Phyllis Morrow 128
Little Brazil (Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in
New
York City, Maxine L. Margolis)
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Tamar Diana Wilson 130
ON THE COVER
A cold January day in 1997: a West African vends his wares at the Empire
State
Building. Photograph reproduced courtesy of Julie Jordan.
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