First fieldwork : Pacific anthropology, 1960-1985 /
First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why ques...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
- Introduction : pay attention and go with the flow / Richard Feinberg
- New Guinea. Into the unknown / Anton Ploeg
- The promise of the visual : early fieldwork in the highland fringe of New Guinea / Allison Jablonko
- On the fringe : first fieldwork in the Upper Sepik, 1966-1967 / Patricia K. Townsend and William H. Townsend
- Practicing ethnography in the mountains of Papua New Guinea / David J. Boyd
- There are stories, and then there are stories : reflections on fieldwork / Nancy McDowell
- Flying by the seats of our pants : changing topics in the field / Richard Scaglion
- Living dead birds : doing first fieldwork in the Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 1975-1976 / William H. Heaney
- Gendered experiences in the field : Bariai, West New Britain, 1980-1985 / Naomi M. McPherson
- Fieldwork interrupted : the politics of fieldwork in Papua New Guinea / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
- Micronesia and Polynesia. Reflections and reconnections of early gastronomic fieldwork in the Pacific, 1966-1980 / Nancy J. Pollock
- Taken around and taken in hand / Karen Sinclair
- Led astray by too much kava / Glenn Petersen
- My Micronesian exile / Richard A. Marksbury
- Advice to anthropologists : taking it, leaving it, and giving it / Mary McCutcheon
- Conclusion : reflecting forward on fieldworks-past / Rena Lederman.