Alma Gottlieb

Restless Anthropologist

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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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  • Vero Gavilanes Rualeshas quoted5 years ago
    Doing new fieldwork reminds us of how to be naïve, as we compel ourselves to ask new questions in new fieldsites. One might even say that insofar as doing new fieldwork is intrinsic to the anthropological mission, it is what makes us anthropologists.
  • Vero Gavilanes Rualeshas quoted5 years ago
    Once they do field research, anthropologists realize that they do not simply enter, leave, or return to it but rather engage it as part of their ongoing lives in a range of locations that constitute both a part of field research itself and a part of the lives of their interlocutors.
  • Vero Gavilanes Rualeshas quoted5 years ago
    we might say that choosing a new fieldsite is about three factors—timing, timing, timing
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