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 Bridges to Humanity Narratives on Fieldwork and Friendship
Bruce Grindal and Frank Salamone
As “visiting strangers,” anthropologists find themselves immersed in the essential mysteries of the ethnographic experience: How can an academic drop into a small Nigerian village or a Himalayan hillside and find friendship as well as information? How can people cross language and cultural barriers? Can even the best-intentioned anthropologist bridge the gap between humanistic science and true friendship? These questions outline a multifaceted quandary, but the beauty of ethnography is that it proves that in the field, friendships do form and deepen. Each of the authors in this captivating collection is a humanist anthropologist—skilled observers and reporters of experiences. They transcend quantitative safety and reach far into the human realm, discovering that those studied can enter an ethnographer’s life as a mentor, friend, or collaborator. Through the art of personal narrative, Bridges to Humanity demonstrates that differing cultures can link to change fieldwork into friendship. In this Second Edition, readers will explore life as it is felt in several continents through music, poetry, reflection, and the spirited retellings of conversations. With the addition of photographs and discussion questions, the friends and collaborators described come alive, along with all of the profound and provocative mysteries about them.
$20.95 list, 294 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-424-8 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-424-6 © 2006 Table of Contents
Introduction MEXICO The Wave: Fieldwork and Friendship in Northern Veracruz, Mexico (Alan R. Sandstrom) Out of the Cold into the Darkness: Shadows of Friendship in Mexico (Gregory G. Reck) My Mexican Friend Marta: Who Lives across the Border from Me in Detroit (Ruth Behar) NATIVE NORTH AMERICA I Refuse to Doubt: An Inuit Healer Finds a Listener (Edith Turner) The Reflecting Pool: Fieldwork, Learning, and the Navajo Way (Jeanne Simonelli) Turning the Storm (Claire R. Farrer) ASIA Shared Stories (Kirin Narayan) Holiness in Practice: Coming to Know a Yogini (Ernestine McHugh) The Chinese Construction of an American Anthropologist (Patricia D. Beaver) AFRICA Immortality Denied (Bruce T. Grindal) He Sang Away My Blues (Frank A. Salamone) Our Village Needs Chairs (Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham) The Sheikh, the Saint, and I (John Napora) UNITED STATES AND EUROPE Eutaw Jack: The Man Born Blind (Michael V. Angrosino) Redneck Girl (Bruce T. Grindal) Remembering Cinita (Robert Roy Reed)
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