Bibliograph

Working the field, accounts from French Louisiana, Edited by Jacques Henry and Sara Le Menestrel

Type

Label

Working the field, accounts from French Louisiana, Edited by Jacques Henry and Sara Le Menestrel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Working the field

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

305422022

Responsibility statement

Edited by Jacques Henry and Sara Le Menestrel

Sub title

accounts from French Louisiana

Summary

Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana records reflections on the fieldwork conducted in French Louisiana by a group of anthropologists and folklorists from Louisiana, the United States, Canada, and France between the 1970s and 2000. Contributors cast a critical look at the core anthropological concepts of field informants, and knowledge. Reassessing, they propose that the field, identities, and knowledge acquired are not set entities but rather are a matter of construction. Personal profiles of the researchers (native or outsider, activist or academic, man or woman, black or white) contribute to frame the investigations. Essays also illustrate the shifting of these identities during and after the research in response to personal, relational, and political circumstances. This volume is a vital addition to the body of work on French Louisiana and Cajun and Creole Culture, and it provides an understanding of the true nature of anthropological fieldwork that is of great value to anyone attemmpting to research in a modern setting

Table Of Contents

Introduction : The state of the Louisiana field and fieldwork / Jacques Henry and Sara LeMenestrel -- Finding the field through the discovery of the self / Carl Lindahl -- "Are you going to treat?" : asking questions about vernacular medicine / Dana A. David -- Are you in for the long haul? / Deborah J. Clifton -- The theory and practice of activist folklore : from fieldwork to programming / Barry Jean Ancelet -- (Re)turn of the native : insider ethnography and the politics of fieldwork in south Louisiana / Marc David -- Tourist and "Cajun from France" : the shifting identity of the anthropologist / Sara LeMenestrel -- Homing in on the field / Jacques Henry -- Fieldwork in French Louisiana : a Québec experience / Cécyle Trépanier and Dean Louder

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