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2007 - 2: Writing Up and Feeling Down

Editorial: Writing Up and Feeling Down

Ingie Hovland (SOAS)

Articles

Getting down to writing up: navigating from the field to the desk and the (re)presentation of fieldwork

Paul O'Hare (University of Sheffield)

Three narratives of anthropological engagement

Melania Calestani (Goldsmiths), Ioannis Kyriakakis (UCL), and Nico Tassi (UCL)

The dangers of writing up: a cautionary tale from Bangladesh

Harriet Matsaert, Zahir Ahmed, Faruqe Hussain and Noushin Islam

New Research

India wiring out: ethnographic reflections from two transnational call centres in India

Meher Varma (Bard College)

2007 - 1: Fielding Emotions

Editorial: Fielding Emotions

Ingie Hovland (SOAS)

Articles

Culture shock: negotiating feelings in the field

Rachel Irwin (University of Oxford)

Emotional apprenticeships: reflection on the role of academic practice in the construction of 'the field'

Celayne Heaton Shrestha (University of Sussex)

My life after death: connecting the field, the findings and the feelings

Kate Woodthorpe (University of Sheffield)

Anthropology that warms your heart: on being a bride in the field

Anna Cristina Pertierra (University College London)

My father's daughter: becoming a 'real' anthropologist among the Ubang of Southeast Nigeria

Chi-Chi Undie (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi)

Encountering emotions in the field: an X marks the spot

Anne Monchamp (Macquarie University)

Eye-glazing and the anthropology of religion: the positive and negative aspects of experiencing and not understanding an emotional phenomenon in religious studies research

Edward Croft Dutton (University of Oulu)

Sharing in ritual effervescence: emotions and empathy in fieldwork

Géraldine Mossière (University of Montreal)

The politics and aesthetics of attraction in the Gran Poder festival: reflections on a 'methodology of affect'

Nico Tassi (University College London)

Reflections on violence and suicide in South Yorkshire: (Dis-)United Kingdom

Simon J. Charlesworth

Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: 'anthropologist as hero'

Tod Hartman (University of Cambridge)

2006 - 2: From play to knowledge: a workshop on ethnographic methodology

Editor: Ingie Hovland
Guest editors on this issue: Susanne Langer, Emily Walmsley, Hannah Knox, Mattia Fumanti

Editorial: From Play to knowledge

Susanne Langer (Cardiff University), Emily Walmsley (Keele University), Hannah Knox (University of Manchester) and Mattia Fumanti (University of Manchester)

Articles

How dancing, singing and playing shape the ethnographer: research with children in a Balinese dance studio

Jonathan McIntosh (Queen's University Belfast)

From play to knowledge: from visual to verbal?

Lucy Atkinson (University of Edinburgh)

The arts of the remix: ethnography and rap

Brett Lashua (Cardiff University)

Playing in the field: participant observation and the investigation of intersubjective knowledge in jazz improvisation

Will Gibson (Institute of Education, London)

Making mountains, producing narratives, or: 'One day some poor sod will write their Ph.D. on this'

By Katrín Lund (University of Iceland)

2006-1: Doing Fieldwork in Eastern Europe

Editor: Ingie Hovland
Guest editor on this issue: Michaela Schäuble

Editorial: Doing fieldwork in Eastern Europe: introduction

Michaela Schäuble (University of Tübingen) with the collaboration of Tomasz Rakowski (University of Warsaw) and Wlodzimierz Pessel (University of Warsaw)

Articles:

Doing fieldwork in Eastern Europe: fieldwork made easier

Fran Deans (University College London)

The Polish political scene as seen from a small town market

Anna Malewska-Szalygin (University of Warsaw)

Gatherers of central Poland: a field study

Tomasz Rakowski (University of Warsaw)

Rubbish as informants: a cultural contribution to Polish 'garbeology'

Wlodzimierz Karol Pessel (University of Warsaw)

Myth, collective trauma and war in Serbia. A cultural-hermeneutical appraisal

Daniel Šuber (University of Konstanz)

'Imagined suicide': self-sacrifice and the making of heroes in post-war Croatia

Michaela Schäuble (University of Tübingen)

In quest of Eastern Europe: troubling encounters in the post-Cold War field

Eleni Sideri (SOAS)

Post-socialist disclosures: an imperfect translation of personal experience into ethnographic writing

Madalina Florescu (SOAS)

Filming ethnicity in Southern Transylvania

Anne Schiltz (University of Manchester)

2005-2: Special Issue: The politics of publishing in Anthropology

Editorial: The politics of publishing in anthropology: introductory remarks

Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh) and Rebecca Marsland (SOAS)

Articles:

Part One: The Politics of Publishing

Can't publish and be damned

Daniel Miller (University College London)

The politics of publishing: a case study from Nepal

Pratyoush Onta (Martin Chautari) and Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh)

Interview with Professor Ronnie Frankenberg on publishing in anthropology and sociology

Christine Barry (Brunel University)

Part Two: New Research

Incorporating incomers and creating kinship in the Scottish Highlands

Kimberley Masson (University of Edinburgh)

Pluralism, parallel medical practices and the question of tension: the Philippines experience

Md. Nazrul Islam (Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong)


2005-1: Special Issue: New methods in the anthropology of science and technology (ASA postgraduate panel 2003)

Editorial:

Mattia Fumanti, Hannah Knox and Susanne Langer (University of Manchester)

Articles:

Negotiating development: the nuclear episode in the Sundarbans of West Bengal.

Amites Mukhopadhyay (University of Kalyani)

Imitative participation and the politics of 'joining in': paid work as a methodological issue.

Hannah Knox (University of Manchester)

Protecting Patients-Managing Persons.

Susanne Langer (Department of Social Anthropology, Manchester University)

Internet clinical trials: examining new disciplinary experiments in health care.

Jenny Advocat (Monash University, Australia)

Visions of the future: technology and imagination in Hungarian civil society.

Tom Wormald (University of Manchester)



2004-2: Special Issue: Future Fields

Introduction:

Future fields: introduction.

Tom Rice (Goldsmiths College) with the collaboration of Mette Berg (University of St Andrews)

Articles:

The making of the fieldwork-er: debating agency in elites research.

Mattia Fumanti (University of Manchester)

Exploring and representing uncertainty: the demand to create order from chaos.

Julia Holdsworth (University of Hull).

Stepping between different worlds: reflections before, during and after fieldwork.

Giovanna Bacchiddu (Department of Anthropology, University of St Andrews).

The field as 'habitus': reflections on inner and outer dialogue.

David Clark (London Metropolitan University).

Cyberethnography as home-work.

Adi Kuntsman (Lancaster University).

The politics of localization: controlling movement in the field.

Akbar Keshodkar (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford).

At work in the field: problems and opportunities associated with employment during fieldwork.

Adam R. Kaul (Durham University).

Finding a middle ground between extremes: notes on researching transnational crime and violence.

Hannah E. Gill (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford).

Devising a new approach to capitalism at home.

Kaori O'Connor (University College London).

Fieldnotes on some cockroaches at SOAS and in Stavanger, Norway.

Ingie Hovland (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London).

Under the shadow of guns. Negotiating the flaming fields of caste/class war in Bihar, India.

George Kunnath (School of Oriental and African Studies).

Studying-up those who fell down: elite transformation in Nepal.

Stefanie Lotter (University of Heidelberg).


2004-1: Special Issue: Cities

Introduction:

Cities: an anthropological perspective.

Andrew Irving (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College of London and Royal Free Hospital).

Articles:

Fahrid's insect world.

Iban Ayesta (Department of Anthropology, University College London).

Tales of the global city: German expatriate employees, globalisation and social mapping.

Fiona Moore (Kingston University School of Business).

Mumbai slums and the search for 'a heart': ethics, ethnography and dilemmas of studying urban violence.

Atreyee Sen (Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London).

Panem et circenses at Largo da Carioca, Brazil: the urban diversity focused on people-environment interactions.

Ethel Pinheiro and Cristiane Rose Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Inscribing the city: a flâneur in Tokyo.

Raymond Lucas (Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen).

Change and Contesting Identities: the Creation and Negotiation of Landscape in Donetsk.

Julia Holdsworth (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Hull).

New locations: the virtual city.

Denise Maia Carter (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Hull).


Book Reviews:

Shore, C. & Nugent, S. (eds). 2002. Elite cultures. anthropological perspectives. ASA Monographs No. 38. London: Routledge.

Stefanie Lotter (University of Heidelberg, Germany).

Sillitoe, P., Bicker, A., & Pottier, J. (eds). 2002. Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge. ASA Monographs No. 39. London: Routledge.

Laila Halani (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford).


 

2003-2

Careful, you might lose something: On being disciplined into the Anthropology of Religion

Ingie Hovland (Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

In the green fields of Kilburn: Reflections on a quantitative study of irish migrants in North London

Louise Ryan (Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School)

Caught in an (ethnographic) moment: Negotiating religious loyalities in and out of the field

Audrey Prost (Department of Anthropology, University College London)

'The self' and 'the other' in disciplinary Anthropology

Paul-François Tremlett (Study of Religions Department, School of Oriental and African Studies)

A tangle of multiple transgressions: The western gaze and the Tobelija (Balkan sworn-virgin-cross-dressers) in the 19th and 20th centuries

Aleksandra Djajic Horváth (Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)


2003-1, "Teaching Rites of Passage"

Introduction. Teaching Rites of Passage.

David Mills and Mark Haris.

The University in scaffolding ... or 'What do we do with bench marks'?

David Mills.

The Junior, the Transient and the Real: Challenges of pre- and post-appointment teaching.

Caroline Oliver.

'Only if they pay me ...': ideals and pragmatics of post-graduate teaching.

Anselma Gallinat

Surveillance and techniques of disciplinary selfhood: notes toward the transmission of anthropological knowledge.

Ian Harper

What's in a name? Reflections on working as a 'teaching assistant' at University College London and as an 'associate lecturer' at The Open University.

Michael Wilmore.

What place teaching in higher education?

Bonnie Van der Steeg.

Teaching the field: the order, the ordering and scale of knowledge.

Alberto Corsin Jiménez.

Cultures in the classroom: Teaching anthropology as a 'foreigner' in the UK.

Anne-Meike Fechter.

Rites of passage or exploitation: Teaching social anthropology, Class Relations and institutional change in two British Universities.

Robert Gibb.

Teaching rites of passage: Workshop summary.


2002

Identity/Identities and Fieldwork: Studying Homeopathy and Tai Chi 'at home' in South London

Christine Barry (Brunel University)

Facing Facts in Rwanda: A response to Nigel Eltringham's 'Representing Rwanda: Questions and Challenges'

Linda Melvern

A Reply to Linda Melvern

Nigel Eltringham (SOAS)

Shaming of the Anthropologist: Ethical Dilemmas during and in the Aftermath of the Fieldwork Process

Rachel Burr (The Open University)

What it is like for me and other people living with HIV/AIDS to be studied by researchers who are conducting projects on people

Jackie Nabwire - introduced by Andrew Irving

Globalising Rights? A Response to the Issues Raised by Jackie Nabwire

David Mills (C-SAP)

Book Review: ‘Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement' by Jane Buckingham

Reviewed by James Staples


2001

Representing Rwanda: questions and challenges

Nigel Eltringham, SOAS

Ethical webs: some thoughts on writing up and publication

Karen Lüdtke, Linacre College, Oxford

Dressed for fieldwork: Sartorial borders and negotiations

Nayanika Mookherjee, SOAS

Far away, so close: Some notes on participant observation during fieldwork in Nepal and England

Mike Wilmore, UCL

Anonimity, ethics and validity: Multi-sited fieldwork into Thai integral healing

Marco Roncarati, SOAS

Unsuitable subject, or the rise and fall of arctic dreams

Mari Hirano, SOAS

Obituary - In memory of a friend - Justine Lucas (June 1968 - July 2000)

By Lindi Botha and Nayanika Mookherjee, SOAS.


2000

Afoot in Mauritania

Jason Peirce, SOAS

Ethnographic quandries and everyday life puzzles - Bakhtin and the study of others

David Herold, SOAS

A curious relationship

Virgina Whiles, SOAS

Special reports :

National Network for Teaching and Learning Anthropology Conference, 12-13 November 1999.

Celayne Heaton, SOAS

Ethnographic Writing in Practice - Report from the Writing Workshop, E@TM, 15th November 1999.

Beckie Marsland, SOAS


1999

Rethinking Thai Masculinity: New Perspectives on Prostitution in Thailand

Alyson Brody, SOAS

Fieldwork in practice: Thoughts from the pre-fieldwork armchair

James Staples, SOAS

Managing culinary diversity in urban China: On the reception of Sichuanese cuisine in the recent Guangzhou press

Jakob Klein, SOAS

Alternative pedagogy of learning and teaching Anthropology: Process and legitimisation

Celayne Heaton, Tomoko Kurihara and Jakob Rigi, SOAS

Appendix 1 - Report on 1 Day Workshop "Alternatives and Innovations: Imagining the future of research Anthropology"

11 June 1999

Appendix 2 - E@TM response to the ESRC Research Training Consultation

Appendix 3 - E@TM Profile

Is Anthropology Nobel Enough? - An invitation to reflect on why no anthropologist has ever walked away with a nobel prize.

Albert E. Alejo