Compte rendu de At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands, de Suzanne Finney et al. (eds)

Abstract

This is the kind of book you want to read both before and after you go to the field. Part 1, Real Encounters: Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork, introduces the reader to some of the obstacles fieldworkers may confront, such as physical danger, gaining local permission to conduct research and the foibles and sometimes funny predicaments experienced by all fieldworkers, whether they admit it or not. We chuckle at Alexander Mawyer’s being perceived by Mangareva grandmothers as a potential h...