Locating the field: space, place and context in anthropology

Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafés and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? : anthropological description of power, regeneration and scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- Far from the trobriands? Biography as field / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- Diaspora, cosmopolis, global refuge : three voices of the supranational city / Nigel Rapport.

Takes a critical look at the developments and key issues in fieldwork in Anthropology. This book features various ethnographic studies that provide ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'. It shows that anthropologists are well-placed to examine and critique the totalizing assumptions behind these notions

Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafés and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? : anthropological description of power, regeneration and scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- Far from the trobriands? Biography as field / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- Diaspora, cosmopolis, global refuge : three voices of the supranational city / Nigel Rapport