Anthropological locations : boundaries and grounds of a field science / Akhil Gupta & James Ferguson

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Discipline and Practice: "The Field" as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology Akhil Gupta andjamesFerguson 2. Mter Ishmael: The Fieldwork Tradition and Its Future Henrika Kuklick 3* Locating the Past Mary Des Chene 4* News and Culture: Transitory Phenomena and the Fieldwork Tradition Liisa H. Malkki 5* Mrican Studies as American Institution Deborah Amory 6. The Waxing and Waning of "Subfields" in North American Sociocultural Anthropology ]aneF. Collier 7* Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science: From Citadels to String Figures Emily Martin 8. "You Can't Take the Subway to the Field!": "Village" Epistemologies in the Global Village Joanne Passaro g. The Virtual Anthropologist Kath Weston 10. Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology James Clifford REFERENCES CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most on "fieldwork" - the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. The essays in this text explore the notion of "field", show how the concept is historically constructed and explore the consequences of its dominance.