First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985 9780824876234

First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their

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First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985
9780824876234

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
Introduction: Pay Attention and Go with the Flow
New Guinea
1. Into the Unknown 19
2. The Promise of the Visual: Early Fieldwork in the Highland Fringe of New Guinea
3. On the Fringe: First Fieldwork in the Upper Sepik, 1966–1967
4. Practicing Ethnography in the Mountains of Papua New Guinea
5. There Are Stories, and Then There Are Stories: Reflections on Fieldwork 76
6. Flying by the Seats of Our Pants: Changing Topics in the Field
7. Living Dead Birds: Doing First Fieldwork in the Wahgi Valley,Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 1975–1976
8. Gendered Experiences in the Field: Bariai, West New Britain, 1980–1985
9. Fieldwork Interrupted: The Politics of Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
Micronesia and Polynesia
10. Reflections and Reconnections of Early Gastronomic Fieldwork in the Pacific, 1966–1980
11. Taken around and Taken in Hand
12. Led Astray by Too Much Kava
13. My Micronesian Exile
14. Advice to Anthropologists: Taking It, Leaving It, and Giving It
Conclusion: Reflecting Forward on Fieldworks-Past
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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