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- catalog abstract "Drawing on the extraordinary and everyday events of his two years among the Komachi nomads of the southern Iran, Daniel Bradburd shows how direct interaction with another culture can provide the intense, forceful encounters essential to anthropological understanding. In Being There, lively accounts of his fieldwork illuminate not only the complexities of Komachi life but also toward comprehending a culture. Bradburd also explores the differences between anthropological and other kinds of experience by comparing his interpretations of Iranian culture with those of four nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century travelers in the region. The accounts of a young adventurer, a seasoned travel writer, a pre-World War I intelligence officer, and the wife of Britain's ambassador include observations that, when stripped of their Victorian trappings, often parallel Bradburd's own. Defining ethnography as the constant attempt to put specific events and encounters into a fuller context, Bradburd counters that field work virtually forces understanding on those who practice it. Exploring the role of the anthropologist as an interpreter of culture, he contends that the knowledge achieved through field experience holds the potential for bridging the world's increasing - and increasingly destructive - cultural divisions.".
- catalog contributor b10725618.
- catalog coverage "Kirmān (Iran : Province) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Drawing on the extraordinary and everyday events of his two years among the Komachi nomads of the southern Iran, Daniel Bradburd shows how direct interaction with another culture can provide the intense, forceful encounters essential to anthropological understanding. In Being There, lively accounts of his fieldwork illuminate not only the complexities of Komachi life but also toward comprehending a culture. Bradburd also explores the differences between anthropological and other kinds of experience by comparing his interpretations of Iranian culture with those of four nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century travelers in the region. The accounts of a young adventurer, a seasoned travel writer, a pre-World War I intelligence officer, and the wife of Britain's ambassador include observations that, when stripped of their Victorian trappings, often parallel Bradburd's own. Defining ethnography as the constant attempt to put specific events and encounters into a fuller context, Bradburd counters that field work virtually forces understanding on those who practice it. Exploring the role of the anthropologist as an interpreter of culture, he contends that the knowledge achieved through field experience holds the potential for bridging the world's increasing - and increasingly destructive - cultural divisions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 186 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Being there.".
- catalog identifier "1560987537 (pbk. :alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1560987774 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Being there.".
- catalog isPartOf "Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Being there.".
- catalog spatial "Iran Kirmān (Iran : Province)".
- catalog spatial "Iran Kirmān (Province)".
- catalog spatial "Kirmān (Iran : Province) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "305.891/5 21".
- catalog subject "DS269.K65 B75 1998".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Fieldwork Iran Kirmān (Province)".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Iran Kirmān (Province) Field work.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Iran Kirmān (Province) Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Komachi (Iranian people) Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Komachi (Iranian people) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Shepherds Iran Kirmān (Iran : Province)".
- catalog subject "Shepherds Iran Kirmān (Province)".
- catalog subject "Social classes Iran Kirmān (Province)".
- catalog subject "Social conflict Iran Kirmān (Province)".
- catalog title "Being there : the necessity of fieldwork / Daniel Bradburd.".
- catalog type "text".