By: Will

Will — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:37:01 +0000

I also want to thank Rex for bringing this book to my attention. I checked it out of the library on the strength of this post and it brought great joy during the holidays. It is as engrossing as a fine novel, and a brilliant, lived ethnography at the same time. If the semester’s responsibilities mean your leisure reading time is limited, take this one to the beach next summer. You won’t regret it.

By: Derick

Derick — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:53:53 +0000

Thanks for this post. I had a similar experience with GoS — I was given a copy as a birthday present early in grad. school and didn’t read it for more than a decade, at which point it went straight onto my intro. syllabus. In the latest iteration of that course (at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~derickf/07fallintro/07fall-ant110-01-syllabus.pdf ), I spread it out across six weeks of the course which meant that we ended up reading her 1st two chapters alongside the introduction to Malinowski’s Argonauts. What a contrast–reading the two together really brings to the fore Malinowski’s self-fashioning as an intrepid explorer and scientist, compared to Fernea’s much more vulnerable and human account of the development of rapport in fieldwork.

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