Methods, Moments, and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia

Author:   Nayantara S. Appleton, Victoria University of Wellington ,  Caroline Bennett, Victoria University of Wellington
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
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9781786612489


Pages:   314
Publication Date:   15 April 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Asia is changing. Socio-political shifts in the world economy, technological advances of monumental scales, movements of people and ideas, alongside ongoing post-colonization projects across the region have created an emerging Asia – one confident and assertive of its place in the contemporary geopolitical sphere. As political and economic powers reassert Asian sovereignty in opposition to perceived Northern dominance, and dramatic and rapid development in the region shift the relationship between the centre and the periphery, new renderings and imaginations of hierarchies of identity and power come to the fore. This changing environment leads to emerging challenges for anthropologists working in the region: both those who have been working there for years, and new scholars entering the field. This volume considers these changes, and the implications of this on our practice. By focusing on Asia as a site of enquiry, the contributors to this book discuss tensions and opportunities arising in their ethnographic fieldwork in light of a changing Asia. Drawing on personal reflections on Asia’s global positioning in this contemporary moment, the contributors consider how fieldwork is being negotiated within the changing dynamics of anthropology in the region. This book then, is a discussion on the shifting landscape of field sites and the resultant emerging research methodologies, and is aimed at those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork as well as those who are seeking ways to undertake it.

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Author:   Nayantara S. Appleton, Victoria University of Wellington ,  Caroline Bennett, Victoria University of Wellington
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9781786612489


ISBN 10:   1786612488
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   15 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Asia and Ethnographic Methods: An Introduction - Nayantara S. Appleton and Caroline Bennett Section I: Reflexively Re-Reading the Field Chapter 1: Astronauts of the Western Pamirs: Mobility, Power and Disconnection in High Asia - Till Mostowlansky Chapter 2: Re-searching and Re-positioning the Self and the Field: Investigating the Nation-State Through Narratives from the Borders - Rimple Mehta and Sandali Thakur Chapter 3: Violence From Another Angle: The Cold War and Contemporary Cambodia - Caroline Bennett Chapter 4: Infrastructures in Karachi: Processes and Practices of Ethnography in Urbanity - Sarwat Viqar Section II: Thinking Across Space and Time Chapter 5: “The Child as Method?”: Paradigm Shifts, Positionality, and Participatory Methods for Researching Children in Asia - Kathie Carpenter Chapter 6: Comparison as Method in India and Papua New Guinea - Lorena Gibson Chapter 7: ­­The Bali of Anthropology and the Anthropology of Bali: Research in a Fast-Moving Part of Asia - Graeme MacRae and Lee Wilson Section III: Notes on Positionality Chapter 8: “We Have Always Been Cosmopolitan”: Towards Anthropologies of Contemporary Complexity in Japan - Paul Hansen Chapter 9: A Feminist Ethnographic Practice in Contemporary India: Pitfalls and Potentialities - Nayantara Sheoran Appleton Chapter 10: Identity Politics, Fieldworkers, and Globalisation: A Japanese Company in Hong Kong as a Fieldsite - Yi Zhu Chapter 11: Comprador, Translator, or Cartographer? Thoughts on Methodological Positions - Jia-shin Chen

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Nayantara Sheoran Appleton is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Caroline Bennett is a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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