After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist's Story
- Submitting institution
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Brunel University London
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 014-109279-4775
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107477407
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- After the ancestors: an anthropologist’s story (110,000 words) is based on fieldwork in Nias, Indonesia, from 1986-88, with a return visit in 2011. An experiment in anthropological presentation, it combines the techniques of narrative non-fiction (characterisation, plot, dialogue) with ethnography, drawing on some 1000 pages of fieldwork diaries and 120 hours of recorded natural dialogue, without explicit explanation or modelling. The book evokes the interwoven lives of individuals making the painful transition from tribespeople to peasants on the fringes of the modern state. It is also the story of coming to understand another world: as such an anthropological ‘bildungsroman’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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