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Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectual adapts to the field and builds deeply affecting relationships with strangers. She discloses what it is like to be a native researching her own culture, offering her fieldwork memoirs in all their spontaneity and candor.We see Banaras through her eyes when she first arrives: throngs of people, cramped and dark lodgings, unappetizing food, mischievous monkeys, and almost overwhelming filth. But as she establishes friendships, we are treated to her discoveries not only about the city and its people, but also about her place in this society.The familiar problems that face most anthropologists conducting fieldwork--of Self versus Other, objectivity versus bias, familiar circumstances versus new and dismaying ones--are given a surprising and complex dimension. Through a narration of her own experiences, the author demonstrates how personal locations--habits, preferences, expectations deriving from childhood memories, and areas of ignorance--impose themselves on the process of selection, observation, and interpretation in research.

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title:Friends, Brothers, and Informants : Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras
author:Kumar, Nita.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13:9780520071391
ebook isbn13:9780585130941
language:English
subjectKumar, Nita,--1951---Diaries, Ethnologists--India--Varanasi--Diaries, Ethnology--India--Varanasi--Field work, Varanasi (India)--Social life and customs.
publication date:1992
lcc:GN21.K86A3 1992eb
ddc:305.8/00954/2
subject:Kumar, Nita,--1951---Diaries, Ethnologists--India--Varanasi--Diaries, Ethnology--India--Varanasi--Field work, Varanasi (India)--Social life and customs.
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Friends, Brothers, and Informants
Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras
Nita Kumar
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
Oxford, England
1992 by
The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kumar, Nita, 1951
Friends, brothers, and informants : fieldwork memoirs of Banaras /
Nita Kumar.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-07138-7 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-520-07139-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Kumar, Nita, 1951-Diaries. 2. EthnologistsIndia
VaranasiDiaries. 3. EthnologyIndiaVaranasiFieldwork.
4. Varanasi (India)Social life and customs. I. Title.
GN21.K86A3 1992
305.8'00954'2dc20Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 591-33815
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Picture 12
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For
Som
with me every step of the way
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Note on Transliteration
xi
Introduction
1
Part One
1. Physical and Cultural Shocks
25
2. The City as Object
36
3. The Library and Its Surroundings
48
4. Unknown Gods and Life-Styles
57
5. Further Pursuit of Informants: The Metalworkers
65
Part Two
6. A Shift in Technique
77
7. Woodworkers
84
8. Weavers
96
9. Categories and Units of Observation
106
10. Among the Police and Administration
114
11. The Researcher at Home
122
12. Death
133
Part Three
13. My Research Assistant
141
14. Inside a Police Station
148
15. Abdul Jabbar
156

Page viii
16. Questions of Gender
170
17. Rapacity and Recovery
179
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