Doing Fieldwork in China... With Kids!: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic - Couverture souple

 
9788776941703: Doing Fieldwork in China... With Kids!: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic

Synopsis

While many anthropologists and other scholars relocate with their families in some way or another during fieldwork periods, this detail is often missing from their writings even though undoubtedly children can have had a major impact on their work.

Recognizing that researcher-parents have many choices regarding their children's presence during fieldwork, this volume explores the many issues of conducting fieldwork with children, generally, and with children in China, specifically. Contributors include well-established scholars who have undertaken fieldwork in China for decades as well as more junior researchers.

The book presents the voices of mothers and of fathers, with two particularly innovative pieces that are written by parentchild pairs. The collection as a whole offers a wide range of experiences that question and reflect on methodological issues related to fieldwork, including objectivity, cultural relativism, relationships in the field and positionality. The chapters also recount how accompanied fieldwork can offer unexpected ethnographic insights. An appendix alerts future fieldworking parents to particular pitfalls of accompanied fieldwork and suggests ways to avoid these.

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À propos de l?auteur

Candice Cornet is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is an anthropologist of China who has written before on fieldwork issues and teaches on Chinese culture and society.

Tami Blumenfield is James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Furman University. She is an anthropologist of China and documentary film producer who has written on cultural heritage politics in the PRC and teaches on media, gender and anthropology in contemporary Asia.

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9788776941697: Doing Fieldwork in China... With Kids!: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic

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ISBN 10 :  8776941698 ISBN 13 :  9788776941697
Editeur : NIAS Press, 2015
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