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Author:   Jeremy MacClancy ,  Agustín Fuentes
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9781845456900

ISBN 10:   1845456904
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Centralizing Fieldwork Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes Chapter 2. The Do’s and Don’ts of Fieldwork Geoffrey A. Harrison Chapter 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist: Mental Journeys of a Fieldworker Volker Sommer Chapter 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar Robert W. Sussman Chapter 5. Problem Animals or Problem People? Ethics, Politics and Practice or Conflict between Community Perspectives and Fieldwork on Conservation Phyllis C. Lee Chapter 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology: Fieldwork Practices and Mutual Benefits Juichi Yamagiwa Chapter 7. Lost in Translation: Field Primatology, Culture, and Interdisciplinary Approaches Nobuyuki Kutsukake Chapter 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork: Context and Practice Agustín Fuentes Chapter 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick Chapter 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative: Why Biological Anthropologists do Fieldwork Lyliane Rosetta Chapter 11. Considerations on Field Methods used to assess Non-human Primate Feeding Behaviours and Human Food Intake in terms of nutritional requirements Claude Marcel Hladik Chapter 12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field: A reflection on the Bioethics of Human Medical and DNA Surveys Alain Froment Chapter 13. Field Schools in Central America: playing a pivotal role in the formation of modern field primatologists Katherine C. MacKinnon Chapter 14. The Narrator’s Stance: Story-telling and Science at Berenty Reserve Alison Jolly Chapter 15. Natural Homes: Primate Fieldwork and the Anthropological Method Pamela J. Asquith Chapter 16. Popularizing Fieldwork: Examples from Primatology and Biological Anthropology Jeremy MacClancy Index

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“Anyone who has untaken fieldwork will relate to many of the experiences in this book and will subscribe to the recurring theme of field researchers needing to be resourceful and adaptable in the face of the unexpected. As a consequence, there should be interest from a broad readership,”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Anyone who has untaken fieldwork will relate to many of the experiences in this book and will subscribe to the recurring theme of field researchers needing to be resourceful and adaptable in the face of the unexpected. As a consequence, there should be interest from a broad readership, . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

-Anyone who has untaken fieldwork will relate to many of the experiences in this book and will subscribe to the recurring theme of field researchers needing to be resourceful and adaptable in the face of the unexpected. As a consequence, there should be interest from a broad readership, - - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

<em>A</em><em>nyone who has untaken fieldwork will relate to many of the experiences in this book and will subscribe to the recurring theme of field researchers needing to be resourceful and adaptable in the face of the unexpected. As a consequence, there should be interest from a broad readership, </em> <strong> - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</strong></p>

Author Information

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His numerous publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (2007) and Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines (ed., 2002). A Melanesianist and Europeanist, he has published widely on the anthropologies of art, food, sport, popular anthropology, and histories of anthropology.

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