Fieldwork Connections

This tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists, one American and two Chinese. As decades of mutual ethnographic research among the Nuosu in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic Â"truth.Â"

Preface to the English EditionAcknowledgmentsPart One: Origins1. Growing up Half Yi / Bamo Ayi2. In the Shadow of the Han / Ma Lunzy3. A White Guy Discovers Anthropology / Stevan HarrellPart Two: China4. Yinchang: My First Fieldwork, 1987-88 / Bamo Ayi5. Getting Started in Southwest China, 1987-88 / Stevan Harrell6. Chasing after Bimo, 1992-93 / Bamo Ayi7. Getting Started Again, 1991 / Stevan Harrell8. First Contact, 1991 / Ma Lunzy9. Almost Real Fieldwork, 1993 / Stevan Harrell10. In the Month of the Snake , 1993 / Ma Lunzy11. Fieldwork with Muga, 1994 / Bamo Ayi12. Getting Further Implicated, 1994 / Stevan Harrell13. The Last Time I Led the Horse, 1994 / Ma Lunzy14. The Bimo in the Modern World, 1994-95 / Bamo AyiPart Three: America15. The First International Yi Conference, 1995 / Ma Lunzy16. Seattle First Free Methodist Church, 1996-97 / Bamo Ayi17. Collecting Mountain Patterns, 1999 / Ma Lunzy18. Conceptualizing Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Bamo Qubumo19. Celebrating Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Stevan HarrellEpilogue: Fieldwork Connections and the Process of Ethnography / Stevan HarrellCast of CharactersChinese and Nuosu GlossaryBibliographyIndex