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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)
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)
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)

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 uber (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)

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)

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)

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).

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).

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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