زمان و میدان

In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, __Time and the Field__ rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation. Time and the Field......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Chapter 1Limits and Limitlessness......Page 27 Chapter 2The Time of the State and theTemporality of the Gavman inManus Province, Papua......Page 41 Chapter 3Out of Conclusion......Page 57 Chapter 4Times of the Other......Page 71 Chapter 5Surfacing Moves......Page 87 Chapter 6Boredom, Rhythm, and theTemporality of Ritual......Page 102 Chapter 7Episodic Fieldwork, Updating,and Sociability......Page 117 Chapter 8Trans-temporal Hinges......Page 129 Afterword......Page 150 Index......Page 163 This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.