Michael Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520272330
- eISBN:
- 9780520951914
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520272330.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Religion
The author extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of ...
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The author extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of turning inward to one's self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted upon and taking action, he shows how the historical complexities and particularities found in human interactions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives. Through portraits of individuals encountered in the course of his travels, including friends and family, and anthropological fieldwork pursued over many years in such places as Sierra Leone and Australia, the author explores variations on this theme. As he describes the ways we address and negotiate the vexed relationships between “I” and “we”—the one and the many—he is also led to consider the place of thought in human life.Less
The author extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of turning inward to one's self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted upon and taking action, he shows how the historical complexities and particularities found in human interactions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives. Through portraits of individuals encountered in the course of his travels, including friends and family, and anthropological fieldwork pursued over many years in such places as Sierra Leone and Australia, the author explores variations on this theme. As he describes the ways we address and negotiate the vexed relationships between “I” and “we”—the one and the many—he is also led to consider the place of thought in human life.
Elly Teman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520259638
- eISBN:
- 9780520945852
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520259638.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This ethnography probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. The book shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on ...
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This ethnography probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. The book shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, the book traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. The book's analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother.Less
This ethnography probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. The book shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, the book traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. The book's analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother.
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226983417
- eISBN:
- 9780226983462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226983462.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
The first well-organized German anthropological field expedition, and one of the earliest such undertakings ever, was mounted in 1907–9 by the Royal Museum of Ethnology in cooperation with the German ...
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The first well-organized German anthropological field expedition, and one of the earliest such undertakings ever, was mounted in 1907–9 by the Royal Museum of Ethnology in cooperation with the German navy. Contrary to the armchair-to-field narratives ubiquitous in histories of anthropology, the development of fieldwork had little to do with a desire for the kind of empathetic participant observation associated with anthropology today. As long as anthropologists defined their discipline as an inductive and comparative science, they were not particularly interested in focused studies of individual societies, except insofar as they provided raw data. Whether they sought a “total impression” of “natural peoples” or reconstructed culture-historical interactions, anthropologists depended on the extensive collections of metropolitan museums. Their turn to the field was a response to their dissatisfaction with the objects brought together by amateurs in the colonies, which anthropologists often regarded as inauthentic commodities or poorly documented curiosities.Less
The first well-organized German anthropological field expedition, and one of the earliest such undertakings ever, was mounted in 1907–9 by the Royal Museum of Ethnology in cooperation with the German navy. Contrary to the armchair-to-field narratives ubiquitous in histories of anthropology, the development of fieldwork had little to do with a desire for the kind of empathetic participant observation associated with anthropology today. As long as anthropologists defined their discipline as an inductive and comparative science, they were not particularly interested in focused studies of individual societies, except insofar as they provided raw data. Whether they sought a “total impression” of “natural peoples” or reconstructed culture-historical interactions, anthropologists depended on the extensive collections of metropolitan museums. Their turn to the field was a response to their dissatisfaction with the objects brought together by amateurs in the colonies, which anthropologists often regarded as inauthentic commodities or poorly documented curiosities.
Nicholas Herriman and Monika Winarnita
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190917074
- eISBN:
- 9780190917104
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Researching how the Australian state relates to the Muslim Malay community on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (an Australian territory), Herriman and Winarnita provide an example of rapport with a ...
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Researching how the Australian state relates to the Muslim Malay community on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (an Australian territory), Herriman and Winarnita provide an example of rapport with a potential research participant going wrong. They see this experience as providing insightful and important data. In this example, Herriman is following a suggestion to interview a new participant when, by chance, he meets with Ifti. Ifti immediately accuses Herriman of wishing to do a study that would enrich Herriman, making him a millionaire (after the study had been published as a book). In addition to providing another example that questions the very possibility of rapport, Herriman and Winarnita analyze this “Ifti moment” as an expression of Ifti’s ideology. Namely, Ifti saw Herriman’s government-funded academic research as merely a continuation of the profits and the historical exploitation of Muslim Malays of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the majority of whom are receiving government benefits for unemployment, pensions, and so on.Less
Researching how the Australian state relates to the Muslim Malay community on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (an Australian territory), Herriman and Winarnita provide an example of rapport with a potential research participant going wrong. They see this experience as providing insightful and important data. In this example, Herriman is following a suggestion to interview a new participant when, by chance, he meets with Ifti. Ifti immediately accuses Herriman of wishing to do a study that would enrich Herriman, making him a millionaire (after the study had been published as a book). In addition to providing another example that questions the very possibility of rapport, Herriman and Winarnita analyze this “Ifti moment” as an expression of Ifti’s ideology. Namely, Ifti saw Herriman’s government-funded academic research as merely a continuation of the profits and the historical exploitation of Muslim Malays of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the majority of whom are receiving government benefits for unemployment, pensions, and so on.
