They lie, we lie :
Metcalf, Peter
They lie, we lie : getting on with anthropology by Peter Metcalf. - New York : Routledge, ©2002. - viii, 155 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index.
CHAPTER ONE: LIES
1. Something spoken which is not true
2. They lie, we lie
3. Getting on with anthropology CHAPTER TWO: STRUGGLE
1. Learning experiences
2. Kasi's pre-emptive strike
3. The polite fictions of research proposals
4. Kasi throws up her defenses
5. The siege
6. My fifth column CHAPTER THREE: POWER
1. Hearts and minds
2. Colonial involvements
3. Going into the villages
4. People invisible to the state CHAPTER FOUR: ETHNICITY
1. Lelakness
2. The vanishing point
3. Foregrounding the Berawan
4. Lost tribes
5. The true Berawan
6. Keeping things in perspective CHAPTER FIVE: CLOSURE
1. Lelak
2. Throwing away the old way
3. Kasi's vanishing
4. Cultural obituaries
5. Indignities
6. Demolishing Upriver
7. Constructing Upriver People
8. No closure
9780415262606
2001044217
Berawan (Malaysian people)
Ethnology--Fieldwork.
Ethnographic informants.
DS597.367.B47 / M48 2002
305.807 / MET-T
They lie, we lie : getting on with anthropology by Peter Metcalf. - New York : Routledge, ©2002. - viii, 155 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index.
CHAPTER ONE: LIES
1. Something spoken which is not true
2. They lie, we lie
3. Getting on with anthropology CHAPTER TWO: STRUGGLE
1. Learning experiences
2. Kasi's pre-emptive strike
3. The polite fictions of research proposals
4. Kasi throws up her defenses
5. The siege
6. My fifth column CHAPTER THREE: POWER
1. Hearts and minds
2. Colonial involvements
3. Going into the villages
4. People invisible to the state CHAPTER FOUR: ETHNICITY
1. Lelakness
2. The vanishing point
3. Foregrounding the Berawan
4. Lost tribes
5. The true Berawan
6. Keeping things in perspective CHAPTER FIVE: CLOSURE
1. Lelak
2. Throwing away the old way
3. Kasi's vanishing
4. Cultural obituaries
5. Indignities
6. Demolishing Upriver
7. Constructing Upriver People
8. No closure
9780415262606
2001044217
Berawan (Malaysian people)
Ethnology--Fieldwork.
Ethnographic informants.
DS597.367.B47 / M48 2002
305.807 / MET-T