Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

The 16 essays represent some of the presentations at a May 2007 conference at Oxford Brookes University called to help develop a trans-disciplinary anthropology project. Part of the effort turned out to be taking a closer look at the process of fieldwork itself than most professionals had done before. The topics include primate fieldwork and its human contexts in southern Madagascar, fieldwork practices and mutual benefits of ecological anthropology and primatology, fieldwork as research process and community engagement in Gambia and Afghanistan, field methods used to assess nonhuman primate feeding behavior and human food intake in terms of nutritional requirements, and storytelling and science at Berenty Reserve in Madagascar. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His numerous publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (2007) and Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines (ed., 2002). A Melanesianist and Europeanist, he has published widely on the anthropologies of art, food, sport, popular anthropology, and histories of anthropology.