Reciprocity Rules

Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters

Michelle C. Johnson, Edmund (Ned) Searles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498592949 (ISBN)

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Reciprocity Rules explores the rich and complicated relationships that develop between anthropologists and research participants over time. Focusing on compensation and the creation of friendship and “family” relationships, contributors discuss what, when, and how researchers and the people with whom they work give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Through reflexivity and narrative, the contributors to this edited collection, who are in various stages in their professional careers and whose research spans three continents and eight countries, reflect on the ways in which they have compensated their research participants and given back to host communities, as well as the varied responses to their efforts. The contributors consider both material and non-material forms of reciprocity, stories of successes and failures, and the taken-for-granted notions of compensation, friendship, and “helping.” In so doing, they address the interpersonal dynamics of power and agency in the field, examine cultural misunderstandings, and highlight the challenges that anthropologists face as they strive to maintain good relations with their hosts even when separated by time and space. The contributors argue that while learning, following, openly discussing, and writing about the local rules of reciprocity are always challenging, they are essential to responsible research practice and ongoing efforts to decolonize anthropology.

Michelle C. Johnson is professor of anthropology at Bucknell University. Edmund Searles is professor of anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University.

List of Figures
Introduction
Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund (Ned) Searles
Chapter 1: Brother to a Scorpion: Making Anthropological Obligations Visible in Urban Nicaragua
Josh Fisher
Chapter 2: Predestined Help: Cosmology and Constraint in Transnational Fieldwork
Michelle C. Johnson
Chapter 3: Existential Debt: How Race and History Complicate the Legibility of the Gift
Carolyn M. Rouse
Chapter 4: Reflections on a Community of the Heart: Ethnographer and the People of Juchitán, Oaxaca
Anya Peterson Royce
Chapter 5: Cigarettes, Cash, or Spare Parts: Compensation and Reciprocity in Arctic Research
Edmund (Ned) Searles
Chapter 6: Conversations and Critiques on Creating an Anthropological “Family”
Chelsea Wentworth and Julie Kalsrap
Afterword: Concluding Thoughts and Fieldwork and Friendwork
Alma Gottlieb
Index
Works Cited
About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Co-Autor	Michelle C. Johnson, Edmund (Ned) Searles, Josh Fisher
Zusatzinfo	18 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-13	9781498592949 / 9781498592949
Zustand	Neuware