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.

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