Fieldwork in South Asia

Memories, Moments, and Experiences

Sarit K Chaudhuri, Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

398 Seiten

2021
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-93-5388-003-3 (ISBN)

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Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science.

Above all, this is a book about relationships—multi-layered relationships among people encountered in the field, the ethnographic relationship itself, with all its personal raw edges, and relationship with the land and even non-human realms.

Sarit K. Chaudhuri is an anthropologist working among the tribes of North-east India for the last 23 years. During 2003–2005 he was in SOAS, United Kingdom, as a postdoctoral fellow and worked for a collaborative project with SOAS, British Museum, CCRD, and Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. He worked in An.S.I., Shillong, and for the last 18 years has been working at Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. He is currently holding the post of professor and heading the Department of Anthropology. He has published 9 books and 52 papers in journals and books. Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri is an anthropologist and currently, as Associate Professor, heading the Centre for Indigenous Culture Studies in Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi. She has worked in An.S.I. for seven years and posted in Dehradun as well as Shillong. During 1999–2011 she worked in the Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, and also worked as the Founder Director, Women Study and Research Centre in the same university. She has published three books and a good number of papers in journals and books.

Foreword - Felix Padel
Preface
Introduction: Evolving Concerns of Fieldwork - Sarit K. Chaudhuri and Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri
I. EXPERIENCE OF SOUTH ASIAN NATIONS
A Historian/ Anthropologist amongst the Garos of Bangladesh - Ellen Bal
Power and Authority in the Field - Ali Khan
Story of My Research in Bhutan - A C Sinha
Remembering Fieldwork Histories - Mandy Sadan
Fields of Working Knowledge - Ben Campbell
Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures - Arjun Guneratne
Return to Rengsanggri - Robbins Burling
II. THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE
Researching Garo Death Rites - Erik de Maaker
Memories and Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in ‘Conflict’ Setting - Debojyoti Das
In Search of Storytellers among the Khiamniungan Nagas - Anungla Aier
Experiencing Mortuary Practices in an Anthropological Journey - Gautam Kumar Bera
Making Senses of the Organizations and the Experiences of Anthropological Practices in a University of India - Arnab Das
Tales of Everyday Politics in West Bengal - Suman Nath and Bhaskar Chakrabarti
Doing Fieldwork and Discovering Harijan Art in Madhubani - Neel Rekha
Memories of My Third Visit to the Nicobar Archipelago - Vijoy S Sahay
Discovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh - Abeer Gupta
Dialogue on Indigenous Studies and Fieldwork in India - Daniel J Rycroft and Ganesh Devy
Glossary
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2020
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	93-5388-003-3 / 9353880033
ISBN-13	978-93-5388-003-3 / 9789353880033
Zustand	Neuware