At home and in the field: ethnographic encounters in Asia and the Pacific islands

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1.Real Encounters:Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork -- Introduction -- Tempting the Nāga -- An Anthropologist Behaving Badly -- Attacked in the Field -- A Question of Permission in Pohnpei -- Grandmothers, Sharks, and Other Dangerous Things -- Part 2. Meaningful Encounters:Learning, Representing, Engaging the Field -- Introduction -- Fieldwork as Transformative Experience -- Fieldwork on Two Wheels in Hanoi, Vietnam, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Ride -- The Cultural Power of Robots in Japan -- Encountering Maoist Propaganda in Pastoral Inner Mongolia -- When the Field is Your Home -- Part 3.Language Encounters:Voices, Discourse, Digital Practice -- Introduction -- Systemic Culture Shock -- Shóón Pakin, Sóóu Tittilap -- Talking with the Moai on Easter Island -- Blogging in Papua New Guinea -- Part 4. Identity Encounters:Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality -- Introduction -- Prostitutes, Menstrual Blood, Minor-Wives, and Feeding the Ducks -- Manning Up -- Contested Belonging of North Korean Refugees in South Korea -- "You Filipino, Ya?" -- Part 5. Close Encounters:Marriage, Kinship, Social Networks -- Introduction -- Sorry, Wrong Number! -- The Invisible Firewalker -- "You Can Do It, Japan!" -- Head Candy/Gut Connection -- Part 6. Economic Encounters:Class, Development, Inequality -- Introduction -- Tales of the Talā (Dollar) -- Working-Class Hospitality and Etiquette in a Bowl of Rāmen Noodles in Tokyo, Japan -- Entering Moloka'I Hawaiian Style -- Part 7.Green Encounters:Environment, Sustainability, Restoration -- Introduction -- From Nuclear Exodus to Cultural Reawakening -- "They Came For Nature" -- The Forest of Contradictions -- He'Eia Kūpuna Mapping Workshops -- Part 8. Political Encounters:Power, Conflict, Resistance -- Introduction.