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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
- 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"
- Joel Robbins   6

Pinching the Crocodile's Tongue: Affinity and the Anxieties of
Influence in Fieldwork
- Michael Lambek   31

Fieldwork: The Dance of Power
- Emmanuel D. Tehindrazanarivelo   54

Fieldwork in the Postcommunity
- Sherry B. Ortner   61

Globalizing Method: The Problems of Doing Ethnography in
Transnational Spaces
- Paul Stoller   81

There Are No Peripheries to Humanity: Northern Alaska Nuclear
Dumping and the Inupiat's Search for Redress
- Edith Turner   95

Beyond the Global: Intimacy and Distance in Contemporary Fieldwork
- Sandra Bamford   110

Discussion: Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization
- Arjun Appadurai   115

WINNER OF THE 1996 FICTION CONTEST

A Feast of Mangoes
- Simone Isadora Flynn   119

COWINNERS OF THE 1996 POETRY CONTEST

The Mountaineer
- Tara Waters Lumpkin   125

Palm Sundary
Good Friday
- 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)
- John D. Dorst    127

Interpreting "Indigenous Articulations" (Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition, Ann Fienup-Riordan)
- Phyllis Morrow   128

Little Brazil (Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City, Maxine L. Margolis)
- 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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