Locating the field : space, place and context in anthropology / edited by Simon Coleman and Peter Collins

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 216 p. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home: reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah: fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot: perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering: between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities: a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafe �s and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion?: anthropological description of power, regeneration and scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- Far from the trobriands? Biography as field / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- Diaspora, cosmopolis, global refuge: three voices of the supranational city / Nigel Rapport. Subjects: Anthropology Fieldwork. Human geography. Ethnology. Globalization. Ethnology Methodology. Space and time.Geography Philosophy. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated.