At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands 9780824855543

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1.Real Encounters:Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Introduction
Tempting the Nāga
An Anthropologist Behaving Badly
Attacked in the Field
A Question of Permission in Pohnpei
Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things
Part 2. Meaningful Encounters:Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field
Introduction
Fieldwork as Transformative Experience
Fieldwork on Two Wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Ride
The Cultural Power of Robots in Japan
Encountering Maoist Propaganda in Pastoral Inner Mongolia
When the Field is Your Home
Part 3.Language Encounters:Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice
Introduction
Systemic Culture Shock
Shóón Pakin, Sóóu Tittilap
Talking with the Moai on Easter Island
Blogging in Papua New Guinea
Part 4. Identity Encounters:Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality
Introduction
Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-Wives, and Feeding the Ducks
Manning Up
Contested Belonging of North Korean Refugees in South Korea
“You Filipino, Ya?”
Part 5. Close Encounters:Marriage, Kinship, Social Networks
Introduction
Sorry, Wrong Number!
The Invisible Firewalker
“You Can Do It, Japan!”
Head Candy/Gut Connection
Part 6. Economic Encounters:Class, Development, Inequality
Introduction
Tales of the Talā (Dollar)
Working-Class Hospitality and Etiquette in a Bowl of Rāmen Noodles in Tokyo, Japan
Entering Moloka‘I Hawaiian Style
Part 7.Green Encounters:Environment, Sustainability, Restoration
Introduction
From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening
“They Came For Nature”
The Forest of Contradictions
He‘Eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops
Part 8. Political Encounters:Power, Conflict, Resistance
Introduction
Narratives of the Vulval Curse in Bontok and Kalinga, Philippines
Digitalizing the Wantok System in West Papua
Embattled Stories of Occupied Hawai‘i
Ta‘Aroa is Great, Good and Mā‘Ohi
Part 9. Deep Encounters:Worldview, Religion, Spiritual Practices
Introduction
Tiptoeing among the Knowledge of the Bodies and the Bodies of Knowledge in Tonga
Being and Time in Nagasaki, Japan
Losing My Mind and Loving Mosquitoes, Crickets, and Other Jungle Inhabitants
“Papa! What’s Money?”
Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

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