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Auto-Ethnographies
The Anthropology of Academic Practices
Anne Meneley (Edited by), Donna Young (Edited by)
9781551116846
Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2005
255 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.36 kg
Auto-Ethnographies is a lively and generally appreciative collection of perspectives on the practices that constitute academic and professional anthropology. [...] For students of ethnography and the academic practice of anthropology, this collection offers a thoughtful set of reflections and 'conversations' on what is surely the most 'vocational' of disciplines. - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
How has the "business" of higher education affected the environment in which academics work? Who should be able to hold anthropologists ethically responsible-the research institution that sponsors the fieldwork or the community of people being studied? What happens when academics step out of the ivory tower and into the public realm? Why and how, do some anthropologists come undone by the challenges of the academy? These are some of the questions posed in this innovative collection of essays. Accessibly written, ethnographically grounded, and theoretically informed, this volume faces contentious issues with honesty, integrity, and the occasional bout of humour. It touches on issues of ethics, teaching, the politics of peer review, and the ironies involved in attempting to make anthropology relevant in wider circles. It offers rare insight into the challenges and dilemmas that mark contemporary scholarship.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Auto-ethnographies of Academic Practices, Donna J. Young and Anne Meneley Part I: Initiations 1. Loyalty and Treachery in the Kalahari, Renée Sylvain 2. Doctors With Borders, Lesley Gotlib 3. Who Wears the Trousers in Vanuatu?, Maggie Cummings Part II: Collaborations 4. Gatekeeper or Helpful Counsel? Practices and Perceptions in Academic Peer Review, Stephen Bocking 5. Teaching and Learning Across Borders, Julia Harrison and Anne Meneley 6. Ethnographys Edge in Development, Pauline Gardiner Barber Part III: Interventions 7. Anthropologist and Accomplice in Botswana, Jacqueline Solway 8. The Torso in the Thames: Imagining Darkest Africa in the United Kingdom, Todd Sanders 9. White Devil as Expert Witness, Ted Swedenburg Part IV: Disciplining the Academy 10. Team Diversity: An Ethnography of Institutional Values, Bonnie Urciuoli 11. Censorship, Surveillance, and Middle East Studies in the Contemporary United States, David A. McMurray Part V: Departures 12. The Auto-ethnography That Can Never Be and the Activists Ethnography That Might Be, David Graeber 13. Writing Against the Native Point of View, Donna J. Young 14. An Anthropologist Undone, Camilla Gibb Afterword: Our Subjects/Ourselves: A View from the Back Seat, Michael Lambek List of Contributors Index