At home and in the field : ethnographic encounters in Asia and the Pacific islands /

At home and in the field : ethnographic encounters in Asia and the Pacific islands /

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Crossing disciplinary boundaries, 'At Home and in the Field' is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of field...

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Other Authors: Finney, Suzanne S. (Editor), Mostafanezhad, Mary (Editor), Pigliasco, Guido Carlo, 1963- (Editor), Young, Forrest Wade (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Asia.
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Oceania.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Tempting the Naga: local knowledge and mysteries of the Mekong / Carl J. Hefner
  • An anthropologist behaving badly: the case of the missing watch on Waya Island, Fiji / Lisa Humphrey
  • Attacked in the field: encountering a street gang while studying peace in Java / Jaida Kim Samudra
  • A question of permission in Pohnpei / Suzanne S. Finney
  • Grandmothers, sharks and other dangerous things: persistent crises in Mangareva, French Polynesia / Alexander Mawyer
  • Fieldwork as transformative experience: learning to see positive Maori urban identities / Serge A. Marek
  • Fieldwork on two wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or, How I learned to stop worrying and enjoy the ride / Margaret Barnhill Bodemer
  • The cultural power of robots in Japan / Hirofumi Katsuno
  • Encountering Maoist propaganda in pastoral Inner Mongolia / Hong Jiang
  • When the field is your home: doing advocacy work and academic work in Hawaiʻi / Jonathan Y. Okamura
  • Systemic culture shock: meeting Fu Lai Ming on the Tibetan plateau / Naomi C.F. Yamada
  • Shoon Pakin, soou tittilap: researching narrative discourse in Micronesia / Emerson Lopez Odango
  • Talking with the moai in Easter Island: placing Rapa Nui language / Forrest Wade Young
  • Blogging in Papua New Guinea / Steven Edmund Winduo
  • Prostitutes, menstrual blood, minor-wives, and feeding the ducks: learning about gender in Thailand / LeeRay M. Costa
  • Manning up: on being a Chamorro researcher with a home court (dis)advantage on Guam / James Perez Viernes
  • Contested belonging of North Korean refugees in South Korea / Hyeon Ju Lee
  • "You Filipino, ya?" / Roberick N. Labrador
  • Sorry, wrong number!: locating marriage partners through wrong numbers and text messages in Vanuatu / Ashley Vaughan
  • The invisible firewalker: negotiating sentiment and inalienable possessions on a Fijian island / Guido Carlo Pigliasco
  • "You can do it, Japan!": social networks and natural disasters / Pamela L. Runestad
  • Head candy/gut connection: how reenacting a historic event changes the present in Hawaiʻi / Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz.
  • Tales of the tala (dollar): notes on cars, consumption, and class in American Samoa / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa
  • Working class hospitality and etiquette in a bowl of ramen noodles in Tokyo, Japan / Satomi Fukutomi
  • Entering Molokaʻi Hawaiian style / Mary Tuti Baker
  • From nuclear exodus to cultural reawakening: a navigator's journey in the Marshall Islands / Joseph H. Genz
  • "They came for nature": a political ecology of volunteer tourism development in northern Thailand / Mary Mostafanezhad
  • The forest of contradictions: coffee versus conservation at Indonesia's Kerinci Seblat National Park / Keith Bettinger
  • Heʻeia kupuna mapping workshops: unearthing the past, inspiring the future in Hawaiʻi / Hokulani K. Aikau, Nahaku Kalei, Bradley Wong
  • Narrratives of the vulval curse in Bontok and Kalinga, Philippines / Melisa Casumbal-Salazar
  • Digitalizing the wantok system in West Papua / James Stiefvater
  • Embattled stories of occupied Hawaiʻi / Ty P. Kawika Tengan
  • Taʻaroa is great, good and maʻohi: nationalism and spiritual identity in contemporary Tahiti / Lorenz Gonschor
  • Tip-toeing among the knowledge of the bodies and the bodies of knowledge in Tonga / Gaia Cottino
  • Being and time in Nagasaki, Japan / Toru Hamada
  • Losing my mind and loving mosquitoes, crickets, and other jungle inhabitants: reflections on field research and its frustrations at a Buddhist meditation retreat in southern Thailand / Geoff Ashton
  • "Papa! what's money?": an enduring question finds answers in burning it for the spirits of the dead in China / C. Fred Blake.

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