"Important and invaluable ... .This book brings that totality outof the shadows and into the light. It is written in an accessiblemanner and should inform teaching of research methods at both anundergraduate and postgraduate level, being a core text in thelatter. It should be a companion guide to us all." (Journal ofthe Royal Anthropological Institute, September 2009)
"There are some fabulous papers in here: thought provoking,stimulating, well-written, clever papers." (AnthropologicalForum, July 2009)"Eye opening, provocative, and politically charged, this timelyvolume will change the ways you think about objects of knowledgeand the means and ethics of knowing."
João Biehl, Princeton University
"With a multi-faceted
play on the concept of shadow, these fineessays together redeem and clarify the so-called reflexive turn inanthropology, showing how the deeply personal in fieldwork isintegral to the kind of quirky curiosity on which ethnographicknowledge so distinctively depends."
George Marcus, University of California, Irvine
"With uncommon candor, the remarkable ethnographers of TheShadow Side of Fieldwork interrogate some of the most pressingethical and theoretical issues of writing culture in the presentmoment. Their often moving accounts of close encounters withthemselves in their fieldwork contexts, and their understanding ofhow these encounters shape anthropology's project of ethicalconnection with persons and worlds beyond, and within, our own,invites the discipline into new realms of inquiry, and excitesdeeper engagement with the paradoxes and anxieties ofintersubjective research. A remarkable undertaking, alltold."
Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College
