Returns to the Field

In vivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type of fieldwork practice-the kind of knowledge it produces, what methodological tools are appropriate, and how relationships with people in the field site change over time.

Documents how re-visiting fieldwork sites shapes anthropologists' interpretations

PrefaceIntroduction Signe Howell and Aud TallePart 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo Terence Turner2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge Aud Talle4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of Ethnography David Holmberg5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism Peter MetcalfPart 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast Asian Societies Signe Howell7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared History Piers Vitebsky8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands Edvard Hviding9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding Alan BarnardAfterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field Bruce KnauftList of ContributorsIndex