Full name: Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia

Author: Douglas Raybeck Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Anthropology, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780881339062 0881339067

According to Raybeck, the solitary dictum that best characterizes fieldwork is "Things go awry." In this spirited account of his time spent in Southeast Asia, Raybeck describes several adventures and misadventures involving field research, as well as the understanding, humility and bruises that these experiences leave behind. Since fieldwork is situated, Raybeck's treatment also includes rich descriptions of Kelantanese society and culture, addressing such topics as kinship, linguistics, gender relations, economics, and political structures. Through the lively pages of this narrative, readers gain insight into the human dimension of the fieldwork undertaking, a sense of how the anthropologist builds rapport in a research setting, and how reliable information is obtained. Similar books: What Color Is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery Women of the Forest by Yolanda Murphy The Meanings of Macho by Matthew C. Gutmann My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris Exit Zero by Christine J. Walley The Women of Deh Koh by Erika Friedl Yemen Chronicle by Steven C. Caton In Search of the Primitive by Stanley Diamond Two Bits by Christopher M. Kelty The Way We Are by Margaret Visser Male and Female by Margaret Mead Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes The Desert Smells Like Rain by Gary Paul Nabhan The Forest of Symbols by Victor Turner Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss Natural Symbols by Mary Douglas Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris