Peter Metcalf

They Lie, We Lie

Getting on with Anthropology

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Produktbeschreibung

In "They Lie, We Lie," Peter Metcalf gives an engaging account of his fieldwork in Borneo, telling the story of his tortuous relationship with Kasi, a formidable old lady who, for twenty years, tried to strictly control what he learned about her community. The author examines the puzzles and contradictions of life in the field drawing out what such personal predicaments have to say about anthropology in a post-colonial world. The result is an account that is accessible to those unfamiliar with the contemporary critiques of anthropology, and useful to those who are only too familiar with them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 143mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780415262606
• ISBN-10: 0415262607
• Artikelnr.: 21467116

Autorenporträt

Peter Metcalf has conducted research in Borneo for over two decades. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER ONE: LIES 1. Something spoken which is not true 2, They lie, we lie
3. Getting on with anthropology CHAPTER TWO: STRUGGLE 1. Learning
experiences 2. Kasi's pre-emptive strike 3. The polite fictions of research
proposals 4. Kasi throws up her defenses 5. The siege 6. My fifth column
CHAPTER THREE: POWER 1. Hearts and minds 2. Colonial involvements 3. Going
into the villages 4. People invisible to the state CHAPTER FOUR: ETHNICITY
1. Lelakness 2. The vanishing point 3. Foregrounding the Berawan 4. Lost
tribes 5. The true Berawan 6. Keeping things in perspective CHAPTER FIVE:
CLOSURE 1. Lelak 2. Throwing away the old way 3. Kasi's vanishing 4.
Cultural obituaries 5. Indignities 6. Demolishing Upriver 7. Constructing
Upriver People 8. No closure FOOTNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY