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Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village in Liangshan, and a highly educated woman from an elite Nuosu/Chinese family. As decades of mutual ethnographic research unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic “truth.”

The book begins with short accounts of the process by which each of the authors became involved in anthropological field research. It then proceeds to describe the research itself, and the stories begin to connect as they become active collaborators. The scene shifts in the course of the narrative from China to America, and the relationship between the authors shifts from distant, wary, and somewhat hierarchical to close, egalitarian, and reciprocal.

The authors share their histories through personal stories, not technical analyses; their aim is to entertain while addressing the process of ethnography and the dynamics of international and intercultural communication.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vi-viii
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  1. Preface to the English Edition
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Part I: Origins
  1. 1. Growing Up Half Yi
  2. pp. 5-12
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  1. 2. In the Shadow of the Han
  2. pp. 13-22
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  1. 3. A White Guy Discovers Anthropology
  2. pp. 23-28
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  1. Part II: China
  1. 4. Yinchang: My First Fieldwork, 1987–88
  2. pp. 31-52
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  1. 5. Getting Started in Southwest China, 1987–88
  2. pp. 53-71
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  1. 6. Chasing After Bimo, 1992–93
  2. pp. 72-88
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  1. 7. Getting Started Again, 1991
  2. pp. 89-97
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  1. 8. First Contact, 1991
  2. pp. 98-102
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  1. 9. Almost Real Fieldwork, 1993
  2. pp. 103-116
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  1. 10. In the Month of the Snake, 1993
  2. pp. 117-134
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  1. 11. Fieldwork with Muga, 1994
  2. pp. 135-161
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  1. 12. Getting Further Implicated, 1994 -
  2. pp. 162-177
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  1. 13. The Last Time I Led the Horse, 1994
  2. pp. 178-197
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  1. 14. The Bimo in the Modern World, 1994–95
  2. pp. 198-205
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  1. Part III: America
  1. 15. The First International Yi Conference, 1995
  2. pp. 209-224
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  1. 16. Seattle First Free Methodist Church, 1996–97
  2. pp. 225-247
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  1. 17. Collecting Mountain Patterns, 1999
  2. pp. 248-256
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  1. 18. Conceptualizing Mountain Patterns, 2000
  2. pp. 257-274
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  1. 19. Celebrating Mountain Patterns
  2. pp. 275-286
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  1. Epilogue: Fieldwork Connections and the Process of Ethnography
  2. pp. 287-300
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  1. Cast of Characters
  2. pp. 301-306
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  1. Chinese and Nuosu Glossary
  2. pp. 307-310
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 311-314
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  1. Index
  2. pp. -330
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