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Pinching the Crocodile's Tongue: Affinity and the Anxieties of Influence in Fieldwork

Author(s) -

Lambek Michael

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

anthropology and humanism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1548-1409

pISSN - 1559-9167

DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.31

Subject(s) - crocodile , ethnography , ambiguity , sociology , anthropology , gender studies , history , ethnology , aesthetics , art , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biology

This article is about my relationship with Dr. Emmanuel Tehindrazanarivelo, Malagasy‐Canadian friend, colleague, teacher, informant, and possibly the most cosmopolitan person I know. At one time he was to have been coauthor; as I will describe, things shifted so that his article is written in response to mine. I recount how my current fieldwork in the town and hinterland ofMahajanga in northwest Madagascar began quite literally with our chance meeting in Toronto, and I reflect on the ambiguity of ethnographic relations constituted "at home."

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