They lie we lie getting on with anthropology 1st Edition by Peter Metcalf ISBN 0415262607 9780415262606
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ISBN 10: 0415262607
ISBN 13: 9780415262606
Author: Peter Metcalf
They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. This is necessary because there has been a polarization within anthropology between those who react dismissively to what Marshall Sahlins calls ‘afterology’ and those who find the critiques so crippling as to make it hard to get on with anthropology at all. Metcalf bridges this divide by analyzing the contradictions of fieldwork in connection with a particular ‘informant’, a formidable old lady who tried for twenty years to control what he would and would not learn. At each stage, the author draws out the general implications of his predicament by making comparisions to the most famous of all fieldwork relationships, that between Victor Turner and Muchona.
The result is an account that is accessible to those unfamiliar with the current critiques of ethnography, and helpful to those who are only too familiar to them. His discussion shows, not how to evade the critiques, but how in fact anthropologists have coped with the existential dilemmas of fieldwork.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER ONE: LIES
1: Something spoken which is not true
2: They lie, we lie
3: Getting on with anthropology
CHAPTER TWO: STRUGGLE
4: Learning experiences
5: Kasi’s pre-emptive strike
6: The polite fictions of research proposals
7: Kasi throws up her defenses
8: The siege
9: My fifth column
CHAPTER THREE: POWER
10: Hearts and minds
11: Colonial involvements
12: Going into the villages
13: People invisible to the state
CHAPTER FOUR: ETHNICITY
14: Lelakness
15: The vanishing point
16: Foregrounding the Berawan
17: Lost tribes
18: The true Berawan
19: Keeping things in perspective
CHAPTER FIVE: CLOSURE
20: Lelak
21: Throwing away the old way
22: Kasi’s vanishing
23: Cultural obituaries
24: Indignities
25: Demolishing Upriver
26: Constructing Upriver People
27: No closure
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