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Preface: Mulling the Intimacies of Dislocation / Christine R. Yano
Introduction / Suzanne S. Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, and Forrest Wade Young
Part 1. Real Encounters: Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Introduction
Tempting the Nāga: Local Knowledge and Mysteries of the Mekong / Carl J. Hefner
An Anthropologist Behaving Badly: The Case of the Missing Watch on Waya Island, Fiji / Lisa Humphrey
Attacked in the Field: Encountering a Street Gang While Studying Peace in Java / Jaida Kim Samudra
A Question of Permission in Pohnpei / Suzanne S. Finney
Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things: Persistent Crises in Mangareva, French Polynesia / Alexander Mawyer
Part 2. Meaningful Encounters: Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field
Introduction
Fieldwork as Transformative Experience: Learning to See Positive Māori Urban Identities / 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: Doing Advocacy Work and Academic Work in Hawai'i / Jonathan Y. Okamura
Part 3. Language Encounters: Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice
Introduction
Systemic Culture Shock: Meeting Fu Lai Ming on the Tibetan Plateau / Naomi C. F. Yamada
Shóón Pakin, sóóu tittilap: Researching Narrative Discourse in Micronesia / Emerson Lopez Odango
Talking with the Moai on Easter Island: Placing Rapa Nui Language / Forrest Wade Young
Blogging in Papua New Guinea / Steven Edmund Winduo
Part 4. Identity Encounters: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality
Introduction.
Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-wives, and Feeding the Ducks: Learning about Gender in Thailand / LeeRay M. Costa
Manning Up: On Being a Chamorro Researcher with a Home Court (Dis)Advantage on Guam / 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
Sorry, Wrong Number! Locating Marriage Partners through Wrong Numbers and Text Messages in Vanuatu / Ashley Vaughan
The Invisible Firewalker: Negotiating Sentiment and Inalienable Possessions on a Fijian Island / Guido Carlo Pigliasco
"You Can Do It, Japan!" Social Networks and Natural Disasters / Pamela L. Runestad
Head Candy/Gut Connection: How Reenacting a Historic Event Changes the Present in Hawai'i / Lynette Hi'ilani Cruz
Part 6. Economic Encounters: Class, Development, Inequality
Introduction
Tales of the Talā (Dollar): Notes on Cars, Consumption, and Class in American Sāmoa / 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
From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening: A Navigator's Journey in the Marshall Islands / Joseph H. Genz
"They Came for Nature": A Political Ecology of Volunteer Tourism Development in Northern Thailand / Mary Mostafanezhad
The Forest of Contradictions: Coffee Versus Conservation at Indonesia's Kerinci Seblat National Park / Keith Andrew Bettinger
He'eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops: Unearthing the Past, Inspiring the Future in Hawai'i / Hokulani K. Aikau, Nahaku Kalei, Bradley Wong
Part 8. Political Encounters: Power, Conflict, Resistance.
Introduction
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: Nationalism and Spiritual Identity in Contemporary Tahiti / Lorenz Gonschor
Part 9. Deep Encounters: Worldview, Religion, Spiritual Practices
Introduction
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: Reflections on Field Research and Its Frustrations at a Buddhist Meditation Retreat in Southern Thailand / Geoff Ashton
"Papa! What's Money?" An Enduring Question Finds Answers in Burning It for the Spirits of the Dead in China / C. Fred Blake
Epilogue: Fieldwork Today / Geoffrey White
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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Contents
Preface: Mulling the Intimacies of Dislocation / Christine R. Yano
Introduction / Suzanne S. Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, and Forrest Wade Young
Part 1. Real Encounters: Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Introduction
Tempting the Nāga: Local Knowledge and Mysteries of the Mekong / Carl J. Hefner
An Anthropologist Behaving Badly: The Case of the Missing Watch on Waya Island, Fiji / Lisa Humphrey
Attacked in the Field: Encountering a Street Gang While Studying Peace in Java / Jaida Kim Samudra
A Question of Permission in Pohnpei / Suzanne S. Finney
Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things: Persistent Crises in Mangareva, French Polynesia / Alexander Mawyer
Part 2. Meaningful Encounters: Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field
Introduction
Fieldwork as Transformative Experience: Learning to See Positive Māori Urban Identities / 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: Doing Advocacy Work and Academic Work in Hawai'i / Jonathan Y. Okamura
Part 3. Language Encounters: Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice
Introduction
Systemic Culture Shock: Meeting Fu Lai Ming on the Tibetan Plateau / Naomi C. F. Yamada
Shóón Pakin, sóóu tittilap: Researching Narrative Discourse in Micronesia / Emerson Lopez Odango
Talking with the Moai on Easter Island: Placing Rapa Nui Language / Forrest Wade Young
Blogging in Papua New Guinea / Steven Edmund Winduo
Part 4. Identity Encounters: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality
Introduction.
Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-wives, and Feeding the Ducks: Learning about Gender in Thailand / LeeRay M. Costa
Manning Up: On Being a Chamorro Researcher with a Home Court (Dis)Advantage on Guam / 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
Sorry, Wrong Number! Locating Marriage Partners through Wrong Numbers and Text Messages in Vanuatu / Ashley Vaughan
The Invisible Firewalker: Negotiating Sentiment and Inalienable Possessions on a Fijian Island / Guido Carlo Pigliasco
"You Can Do It, Japan!" Social Networks and Natural Disasters / Pamela L. Runestad
Head Candy/Gut Connection: How Reenacting a Historic Event Changes the Present in Hawai'i / Lynette Hi'ilani Cruz
Part 6. Economic Encounters: Class, Development, Inequality
Introduction
Tales of the Talā (Dollar): Notes on Cars, Consumption, and Class in American Sāmoa / 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
From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening: A Navigator's Journey in the Marshall Islands / Joseph H. Genz
"They Came for Nature": A Political Ecology of Volunteer Tourism Development in Northern Thailand / Mary Mostafanezhad
The Forest of Contradictions: Coffee Versus Conservation at Indonesia's Kerinci Seblat National Park / Keith Andrew Bettinger
He'eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops: Unearthing the Past, Inspiring the Future in Hawai'i / Hokulani K. Aikau, Nahaku Kalei, Bradley Wong
Part 8. Political Encounters: Power, Conflict, Resistance.
Introduction
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: Nationalism and Spiritual Identity in Contemporary Tahiti / Lorenz Gonschor
Part 9. Deep Encounters: Worldview, Religion, Spiritual Practices
Introduction
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: Reflections on Field Research and Its Frustrations at a Buddhist Meditation Retreat in Southern Thailand / Geoff Ashton
"Papa! What's Money?" An Enduring Question Finds Answers in Burning It for the Spirits of the Dead in China / C. Fred Blake
Epilogue: Fieldwork Today / Geoffrey White
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y.