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1001:2021:11 [2021/05/11 22:52] – [Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork”] Ryan Schram (admin)1001:2021:11 [2024/04/16 18:27] (current) – [Another story of fieldwork: Layard on Atchin] Ryan Schram (admin)
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 ===== Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” ===== ===== Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” =====
  
-ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology   +ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology 
-Ryan Schram   + 
-Week of May 17, 2021 (Week 11)  +Ryan Schram 
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 +Week of May 17, 2021 (Week 11) 
 Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/1001/2021/11   Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/1001/2021/11  
  
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 ===== Another story of fieldwork: Layard on Atchin ===== ===== Another story of fieldwork: Layard on Atchin =====
  
-<HTML><ul></HTML> +* Rivers and John W. Layard on Atchin (Tsan) island in the New Hebrides islands (today in Malakula, Vanuatu) 
-<HTML><li></HTML><HTML><p></HTML>Rivers and John W. Layard on Atchin (Tsan) island in the New Hebrides islands (today in Malakula, Vanuatu)<HTML></p></HTML> + 
-<HTML><ul></HTML> +   - Abandoned by Rivers, who got frustrated 
-<HTML><li></HTML>Abandoned by Rivers, who got frustrated<HTML></li></HTML><HTML></ul></HTML>+   - “Paper [an untitled man] makes another fire and uses a different teapot than us [Rivers and Layard]. The fact that we have eaten with women prevents him from eating with us” (Layard’s field notes, ca. Sept.–Oct. 1914). 
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 +* After Rivers left, Layard 
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 +  - Was left alone to make friends 
 +  - Experienced culture shock 
 +  - Adopted by another outsider: Mari 
 +  - Participated in a big collective project: The revival of the Maki
  
-<HTML><p></HTML>“Paper [an untitled man] makes another fire and uses a different teapot than us [Rivers and Layard]. The fact that we have eaten with women prevents him from eating with us” (Layard’s field notes, ca. Sept.–Oct. 1914).<HTML></p></HTML> 
-<HTML><ul></HTML> 
-<HTML><li></HTML>Left alone to make friends<HTML></li></HTML> 
-<HTML><li></HTML>Experienced culture shock<HTML></li></HTML> 
-<HTML><li></HTML>Adopted by another outsider: Mari<HTML></li></HTML> 
-<HTML><li></HTML>Participated in a big collective project: The revival of the Maki<HTML></li></HTML><HTML></ul></HTML> 
-<HTML></li></HTML><HTML></ul></HTML> 
  
 ===== Yet another story of fieldwork: Gomberg-Muñoz and The Lions ===== ===== Yet another story of fieldwork: Gomberg-Muñoz and The Lions =====
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 Only then is there a possibility of discovery, of finding things that you did not even think you would be looking for. Only then is there a possibility of discovery, of finding things that you did not even think you would be looking for.
  
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 ===== Gardens and funerals ===== ===== Gardens and funerals =====
  
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     * If people’s experiences with interviews comes through their culture’s emic category of //job interview//, then they will relate to the fieldworker like an employer.     * If people’s experiences with interviews comes through their culture’s emic category of //job interview//, then they will relate to the fieldworker like an employer.
       * Fieldworkers first need to be socialized to converse in the same way that people of the community also “learn how to ask” questions and participate in different kinds of conversation (Briggs 1984).       * Fieldworkers first need to be socialized to converse in the same way that people of the community also “learn how to ask” questions and participate in different kinds of conversation (Briggs 1984).
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 ===== References ===== ===== References =====
  
-Briggs, Charles L. 1984. “Learning How to Ask: Native Metacommunicative Competence and the Incompetence of Fieldworkers.” //Language in Society// 13 (1): 1–28.+/* Briggs, Charles L. 1984. “Learning How to Ask: Native Metacommunicative Competence and the Incompetence of Fieldworkers.” //Language in Society// 13 (1): 1–28. */
  
 Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2015. “Fieldwork and Ethnography.” In //Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology//, 32–51. London: Pluto Press. Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2015. “Fieldwork and Ethnography.” In //Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology//, 32–51. London: Pluto Press.
  
-Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth. 2010. “Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigrant Network.” //American Anthropologist// 112 (2):295–307. https:*doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01227.x.+Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth. 2010. “Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigrant Network.” //American Anthropologist// 112 (2):295–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01227.x.
  
-———. 2011. //Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network//. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http:%%//%%books.google.com?id=9tb0SAAACAAJ.+———. 2011. //Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network//. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://books.google.com?id=9tb0SAAACAAJ.
  
-Layard, John W. 1942. //Stone Men of Malekula//. London: Chatto and Windus. http:%%//%%books.google.com?id=Z6etvQEACAAJ.+Layard, John W. 1942. //Stone Men of Malekula//. London: Chatto and Windus. http://books.google.com?id=Z6etvQEACAAJ.
  
-Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1922) 1932. //Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea//. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. http:%%//%%archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp.+Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1922) 1932. //Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea//. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp.
  
 Rivers, W. H. R. 1914. //The History of Melanesian Society//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rivers, W. H. R. 1914. //The History of Melanesian Society//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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