Fieldwork in South Asia : memories, moments, and experiences / edited by Sarit K. Chaudhuri and Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A historian/anthropologist amongst the Garos of Bangladesh / Ellen Bal -- Power and authority in the field / Ali Khan -- Story of my research in Bhutan / A.C. Sinha -- Remembering fieldwork histories / Mandy Sadan -- Fields of working knowledge / Ben Campbell -- Reflections on fieldwork in three cultures / Arjun Guneratne -- Return to Rengsanggri / Robbins Burling -- Researching Garo death rites / Erik de Maaker -- Memories and reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in "conflict" setting / Debojyoti Das -- In search of storytellers among the Khiamniungan Nagas / Anungla Aier -- Experiencing mortuary practices in an anthropological journey / Gautam Kumar Bera -- Making senses of the organizations and the experiences of anthropological practices in a university of India / Arnab Das -- Tales of everyday politics in West Bengal / Suman Nath and Bhaskar Chakrabarti -- Doing fieldwork and discovering Harijan art in Madhubani / Neel Rekha -- Memories of my third visit to the Nicobar archipelago / Vijoy S. Sahay -- Discovering the self and others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh / Abeer Gupta -- Dialogue on indigenous studies and fieldwork in India / Daniel J. Rycroft and Ganesh Devy.

This book is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science.