Fieldwork in South Asia : Memories, Moments, and Experiences.
Sarit K Chaudhuri; Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri
- SAGE, 2014.
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Evolving Concernsof Fieldwork; SECTION I: Experience of South Asian Nations; 1 -- A Historian/Anthropologist amongst the Garos of Bangladesh; 2 -- Power and Authority in the Field; 3 -- Story of My Research in Bhutan; 4 -- Remembering Fieldwork Histories; 5 -- Fields of Working Knowledge; 6 -- Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures; 7 -- Return to Rengsanggri; SECTION II: The Indian Experience; 8 -- Researching Garo Death Rites; 9 -- Memories and Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in 'Conflict' Setting. 10 -- In Search of Storytellers among the Khiamniungan Nagas11 -- Experiencing Mortuary Practices in an Anthropological Journey; 12 -- Making Senses of the Organizations and the Experiences of Anthropological Practices in a University of India; 13 -- Tales of Everyday Politics in West Bengal; 14 -- Doing Fieldwork and Discovering Harijan Art in Madhubani; 15 -- Memories of My Third Visit to the Nicobar Archipelago; 16 -- Discovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh; 17 -- Dialogue on Indigenous Studies and Fieldwork in India; Glossary; About the Editors and Contributors; Index.