In this article we problematize the concept of the “field” in social research, stemming from and expanding the discussion presented in the introduction to this issue. We demonstrate that for social researchers a field site transcends the
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The Concept of the “Field” in Early Soviet Ethnography
A Northern Perspective
Dmitry V. Arzyutov and Sergei A. Kan
One of the fundamental principles of anthropology is that it is based on fieldwork. 1 It is the field that “helps define anthropology as a discipline in both senses of the word, constructing a space of possibilities while at the same time drawing
Traversing Fields
Affective Continuities across Muslim and Christian Settings in Berlin
Omar Kasmani and Dominik Mattes
prayer gatherings in these two religious settings as a way to capture locally specific workings of affect and sensation. At the same time, we wish to evoke affect's potential for traversing fields. Even though we have individually conducted fieldwork in
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 111–117 (7 total)
On the character of character
An immodest proposal
James D. Faubion
Any revival of the anthropology of character (or its companion concept, ‘personality’) should avoid five chief faults of what has come before. First, it must be more cautious than many examples of the anthropology of character past in taking for granted that character can be generalised to the level of the ‘national’. Second, it should not fall back on a general psychology – whether of temperament or of the strategic actor. Third, it should take the complexity of character – from its embodiment and re‐embodiment in the individual to the plural and often competing and inconsistent collective demands of the formation of character that any given individual in any collective context must face – as its point of departure. Fourth, it should not privilege the homeostasis of the reproduction of character over the dynamics of the alteration of character. Fifth, it should avoid the anthropic as the only or even the chief domain of which judgements of character might be of anthropological interest. All of these requirements can potentially be met in approaching the analysis of character through extrapolating system‐theoretically from the logic of the Bourdieusian field.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 168–181 (13 total)
From behind stall doors
Farming the Eastern German countryside in the animal welfare era
Amy Leigh Field
counterparts. Bright yellow rapeseed, or the basis for canola oil ( Rapsöl ), is grown on broad tracts of land during the spring, where there are very few trees and even fewer birds. Large, fuel-thirsty tractors and other machinery drive up and down fields in
Field Notes and Reading Notes
Studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
Nélia Dias
“Attend and document at least one Halloween event during the next two weeks. Take field notes on the event. You may also use video, audio, and photographic techniques.” 1 That was one of the requirements of Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's class
João Pina-Cabral
seventeenth century, which sits at the bottom of the valley, right above some especially fertile irrigated fields: ‘And whose is that house?’ ‘Oh, nowadays, it belongs to a local man … ’ but one can immediately sense that, as the questions become specific
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 104–116 (13 total)
No Sabras in the Fields?
Sabra Artists in The Cameri Theatre, 1945–1953
Leah Gilula
the Diaspora. 6 That image of the sabra was both idealized and criticized in the arts. A fine example of the double-edged representation appears in the novel Hu Halach Basadot (He walked through the fields) by a young sabra author, Moshe Shamir
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 128–143 (16 total)
Felix Girke
In his poem “Leaving the Field,” published in Antipodes , anthropologist Michael Jackson (1996: 15) evokes the anticipation, unease, and conflicted positionality of the moments just before departure: Snatching at images in my last hours
Early Field Photography and Visual Documents of Northern Indigenous Cultures
Ivan Poliakov’s Collection, 1876
Ekaterina B. Tolmacheva
Field, and particularly ethnographic and anthropological, photography, began to develop in Russia in the 1870s. A particular surge of interest in visual documentation of culture can be traced back to an ethnographic exhibition held in Moscow in 1867