Mementos Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent

With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology ethnomusicology and folklore this volume contains personal imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly context yet are a vital part of research. Some pieces are engaging autobiographical accounts of ethnographers' experiences in the field while others are fictional narratives. These tales take readers to a range of locales offering richly detailed portraits of informants local cultures and life in the field.