Tenting Amidst Terrorists
The Upside of Central Mindanao Field Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11819581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Austin (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 43-47 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/praa.25.2.v6r86232g5262252 |
| OpenAlex | W2065516362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
When I was in graduate school my professors told me that fieldwork could be adventurous, but forgot to tell me it could also be hazardous. Of interest here is the issue of how pitching a tent, somewhat figuratively speaking, on terror prone foreign soil can illustrate practical out-of-classroom anthropology and offer career directions that should not necessarily be discounted outright because of potential hazards. After all, one would not expect a young physician to avoid entering a hospital for dread of contracting a disease. In 1980, when I first began looking at how Filipino rice farmers solved their disputes out-of-court, I had no idea that such fieldwork could actually involve risk to life and limb
Field (mathematics · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |