Athena McLean is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University. Dr. McLean's research has focused on processes of knowledge production and contestation in the areas of aging and psychiatry. She has particular interests in dementia care and advocacy movements in mental health and aging. Her writings include 'Contradictions in the Social Production of Clinical Knowledge: The Case of Schizophrenia', in Social Science and Medicine (1990), and The Person in Dementia: A Study of Nursing Home Care in the U.S. (2007). Annette Leibing is an anthropologist with research interests in psychiatry, aging (especially Alzheimer), medications, and new medical technologies (such as stem cells). She has taught anthropology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and been a visiting professor in Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University (2002-05). She is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Montreal. Her latest book, co-edited with Lawrence Cohen, is Thinking about Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (2006).

Dedication.

Acknowledgements.

Contributors.

Foreword: In the Shadows: Anthropological Encounters with
Modernity: Gillian Goslinga (University of California, Santa Cruz)
and Gelya Frank (University of Southern California).

Introduction: 'Learn to Value your Shadow!': An Introduction to
the Margins of Fieldwork: Annette Leibing (University of Montreal)
and Athena McLean (Central Michigan University).

Part I: Secrecy and Silence in the Ethnographic
Encounter:.

1. Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family
Narratives as Intimate Ethnography: Alisse Waterston (John Jay
College of Criminal Justice) and Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan
State University).

2. When Things Get Personal: Secrecy and the Production of
Experience in Fieldwork: Anne M. Lovell (National Institute for
Research on Health and Medicine, Marseille).

Part II: Transmutations of Experience: Approaching the
Reality of Shadows:.

3. The Scene: Shadowing the Real: Vincent Crapanzano (CUNY
Graduate Center).

4. Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition,
Revelation: Thomas Csordas (University of California, San
Diego).

Part III: Epistemic Shadows:.

5. Shining a Light into the Shadow of Death: Terminal Care
Discourse and Practice in the Late Twentieth Century: Jason Szabo
(Harvard University).

6. The Hidden Side of the Moon or, 'Lifting Out' in Ethnography:
Annette Leibing (University of Montreal).

Part IV: The Politics of Ethnographic Encounter: Negotiating
Power in the Shadow:.

7. The Gray Zone: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of
California, Berkeley).

8. Others within Us: Collective Identity, Positioning and
Displacement: Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

9. Falling into Fieldwork: Lessons from a Desperate Search for
Survival: Rose-Marie Chierici (SUNY Geneseo).

Part V: Blurred Borders in the Ethnographic Encounter of Self
and Other:.

10. Field Research on the Run: One More (from) for the Road:
Dimitris Papageorgiou (University of the Aegean).

11. Intimate Travels through Otherness: Ellen Corin (McGill
University).

12. When the Border of Research and Personal Life become
Blurred: Thorny Issues in Conducting Dementia Research: Athena
McLean (Central Michigan University).

Index

"Important and invaluable ... .This book brings that totality out
of the shadows and into the light. It is written in an accessible
manner and should inform teaching of research methods at both an
undergraduate and postgraduate level, being a core text in the
latter. It should be a companion guide to us all." (Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute, September 2009)



"There are some fabulous papers in here: thought provoking,
stimulating, well-written, clever papers." (Anthropological
Forum, July 2009)

"Eye opening, provocative, and politically charged, this timely
volume will change the ways you think about objects of knowledge
and the means and ethics of knowing."

João Biehl, Princeton University



"With a multi-faceted play on the concept of shadow, these fine
essays together redeem and clarify the so-called reflexive turn in
anthropology, showing how the deeply personal in fieldwork is
integral to the kind of quirky curiosity on which ethnographic
knowledge so distinctively depends."

George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

"With uncommon candor, the remarkable ethnographers of The
Shadow Side of Fieldwork interrogate some of the most pressing
ethical and theoretical issues of writing culture in the present
moment. Their often moving accounts of close encounters with
themselves in their fieldwork contexts, and their understanding of
how these encounters shape anthropology's project of ethical
connection with persons and worlds beyond, and within, our own,
invites the discipline into new realms of inquiry, and excites
deeper engagement with the paradoxes and anxieties of
intersubjective research. A remarkable undertaking, all
told."

Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College