@Book{1618347004, editor="Finney, Suzanne S. and Mostafanezhad, Mary and Pigliasco, Guido Carlo and Young, Forrest W.", title="At home and in the field: ethnographic encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands", year="2015", address="Honolulu", keywords="Ethnology; Fieldwork; Asia; Oceania; Ethnologie; Feldforschung; Asien; Ozeanien", contents="Tempting the Naga: local knowledge and mysteries of the Mekong Carl J. HefnerAn anthropologist behaving badly: the case of the missing watch on Waya Island, Fiji / Lisa Humphrey", abstract="Tempting the Naga: local knowledge and mysteries of the Mekong / Carl J. Hefner -- An anthropologist behaving badly: the case of the missing watch on Waya Island, Fiji / Lisa Humphrey -- Attacked in the field: encountering a street gang while studying peace in Java / Jaida Kim Samudra -- A question of permission in Pohnpei / Suzanne S. Finney -- Grandmothers, sharks and other dangerous things: persistent crises in Mangareva, French Polynesia / Alexander Mawyer -- Fieldwork as transformative experience: learning to see positive Maori urban identities / Serge A. Marek -- Fieldwork on two wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or, How I learned to stop worrying and enjoy the ride / Margaret Barnhill Bodemer -- The cultural power of robots in Japan / Hirofumi Katsuno -- Encountering Maoist propaganda in pastoral Inner Mongolia / Hong Jiang -- When the field is your home: doing advocacy work and academic work in Hawaiʻi / Jonathan Y. Okamura -- Systemic culture shock: meeting Fu Lai Ming on the Tibetan plateau / Naomi C.F. Yamada -- Shoon Pakin, soou tittilap: researching narrative discourse in Micronesia / Emerson Lopez Odango -- Talking with the moai in Easter Island: placing Rapa Nui language / Forrest Wade Young -- Blogging in Papua New Guinea / Steven Edmund Winduo -- Prostitutes, menstrual blood, minor-wives, and feeding the ducks: learning about gender in Thailand / LeeRay M. Costa -- Manning up: on being a Chamorro researcher with a home court (dis)advantage on Guam / James Perez Viernes -- Contested belonging of North Korean refugees in South Korea / Hyeon Ju Lee -- ``You Filipino, ya?'' / Roberick N. Labrador -- Sorry, wrong number!: locating marriage partners through wrong numbers and text messages in Vanuatu / Ashley Vaughan -- The invisible firewalker: negotiating sentiment and inalienable possessions on a Fijian island / Guido Carlo Pigliasco -- ``You can do it, Japan!'': social networks and natural disasters / Pamela L. Runestad -- Head candy/gut connection: how reenacting a historic event changes the present in Hawaiʻi / Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz --", note="edited by Suzanne S. Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, Forrest Wade Young", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9780824847593", language="English" }