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What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The Restless Anthropologist", Alma Gottlieb brings together eight eminent scholars to recount the riveting personal and intellectual dynamics of uprooting one's life - and decades of work - to embrace a new fieldsite. Addressing questions of life-course, research methods, institutional support, professional networks, ethnographic models, and disciplinary paradigm shifts, the contributing writers of "The Restless Anthropologist" discuss the ways their earlier and later projects compare on both scholarly and personal levels, describing the circumstances of their choices and the motivations that have emboldened them to proceed, to become novices all over again. In doing so, they question some of the central expectations of their discipline, reimagining the space of the anthropological fieldsite at the heart of their scholarly lives.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Restless Anthropologist
• Author: Alma Gottlieb
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780226304908
• ISBN: 0226304906
• ID: 01199277
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 310 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. April 2012

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