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At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands

Suzanne S. Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, and Forrest Wade Young

Abstract

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. The stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of “homework”—ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home—the book contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between “insiders” and “outsiders.” The obligations that fieldwork e ... More

Keywords: ethnographic research, Asia, Pacific Islands, writing, fieldwork, insiders, outsiders, China, Vanuatu, Japan

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780824847593
Published to Hawaii Scholarship Online: November 2016 DOI:10.21313/hawaii/9780824847593.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Suzanne S. Finney, editor
Maritime Archaeology and History of the Hawaiian Islands Foundation, Author 2-4: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mary Mostafanezhad, editor

Guido Carlo Pigliasco, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Introduction

Suzanne S. Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, and Forrest Wade Young

Part 1 Real Encounters: Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork

Introduction

Suzanne S. Finney

Tempting the Nāga

Carl J. Hefner

An Anthropologist Behaving Badly

Lisa Humphrey

Attacked in the Field

Jaida Kim Samudra

A Question of Permission in Pohnpei

Suzanne S. Finney

Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things

Alexander Mawyer

Part 2 Meaningful Encounters: Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field

Introduction

Forrest Wade Young

Fieldwork as Transformative Experience

Serge A. Marek

Fieldwork on Two Wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Ride

Margaret Barnhill Bodemer

The Cultural Power of Robots in Japan

Hirofumi Katsuno

Encountering Maoist Propaganda in Pastoral Inner Mongolia

Hong Jiang

When the Field Is Your Home

Jonathan Y. Okamura

Part 3 Language Encounters: Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice

Introduction

Forrest Wade Young

Systemic Culture Shock

Naomi C. F. Yamada

Shóón Pakin, sóóu tittilap

Emerson Lopez Odango

Talking with the Moai on Easter Island

Forrest Wade Young

Blogging in Papua New Guinea

Steven Edmund Winduo

Part 4 Identity Encounters: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality

Introduction

Mary Mostafanezhad

Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-wives, and Feeding the Ducks

LeeRay M. Costa

Manning Up

James Perez Viernes

Contested Belonging of North Korean Refugees in South Korea

Hyeon Ju Lee

“You Filipino, ya?”

Roderick N. Labrador

Part 5 Close Encounters: Marriage, Kinship, Social Networks

Introduction

Guido Carlo Pigliasco

Sorry, Wrong Number!

Ashley Vaughan

The Invisible Firewalker

Guido Carlo Pigliasco

“You Can Do It, Japan!”

Pamela L. Runestad

Head Candy/Gut Connection

Lynette Hi‘ilani Cruz

Part 6 Economic Encounters: Class, Development, Inequality

Introduction

Mary Mostafanezhad

Tales of the Talā (Dollar)

Fa‘anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa

Working-Class Hospitality and Etiquette in a Bowl of Rāmen Noodles in Tokyo, Japan

Satomi Fukutomi

Entering Moloka‘i Hawaiian Style

Mary Tuti Baker

Part 7 Green Encounters: Environment, Sustainability, Restoration

Introduction

Mary Mostafanezhad

From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening

Joseph H. Genz

“They Came for Nature”

Mary Mostafanezhad

The Forest of Contradictions

Keith Andrew Bettinger

He‘eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops

Hokulani K. Aikau, Nahaku Kalei, Bradley Wong

Part 8 Political Encounters: Power, Conflict, Resistance

Introduction

Forrest Wade Young

Narratives of the Vulval Curse in Bontok and Kalinga, Philippines

Melisa Casumbal-Salazar

Digitalizing the Wantok System in West Papua

James Stiefvater

Embattled Stories of Occupied Hawai‘i

Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

Ta‘aroa Is Great, Good and Mā‘ohi

Lorenz Gonschor

Part 9 Deep Encounters: Worldview, Religion, Spiritual Practices

Introduction

Guido Carlo Pigliasco

Tiptoeing among the Knowledge of the Bodies and the Bodies of Knowledge in Tonga

Gaia Cottino

Being and Time in Nagasaki, Japan

Toru Yamada

Losing My Mind and Loving Mosquitoes, Crickets, and Other Jungle Inhabitants

Geoff Ashton

“Papa! What’s Money?”

C. Fred Blake

Epilogue

Geoffrey White

End Matter

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Index