Returns to the field : multitemporal research and contemporary anthropology

Abstract

Preface Introduction Signe Howell and Aud Talle Part 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective 1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo Terence Turner 2. Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals: Yolngu Mortuary Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy 3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge Aud Talle 4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of Ethnography David Holmberg 5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism Peter Metcalf Part 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space 6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast Asian Societies Signe Howell 7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared History Piers Vitebsky 8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands Edvard Hviding 9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding Alan Barnard Afterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field Bruce Knauft List of Contributors Index

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