What Color Is the Sacred?
by Michael Taussig | 
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
by Katherine Verdery | 
Women of the Forest
by Yolanda Murphy | 
The Meanings of Macho
by Matthew C. Gutmann | 
My Cocaine Museum
by Michael Taussig | 
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
by Robert M. Emerson | 
Cultural Materialism
by Marvin Harris | 
Exit Zero
by Christine J. Walley | 
The Women of Deh Koh
by Erika Friedl | 
Yemen Chronicle
by Steven C. Caton |
In Search of the Primitive
by Stanley Diamond |
Two Bits
by Christopher M. Kelty | 
The Way We Are
by Margaret Visser | 
Male and Female
by Margaret Mead |
Death Without Weeping
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes | 
The Desert Smells Like Rain
by Gary Paul Nabhan | 
The Forest of Symbols
by Victor Turner | 
Totemism
by Claude Levi-Strauss | 
Natural Symbols
by Mary Douglas | 
Cannibals and Kings
by Marvin Harris |
According to Raybeck, the solitary dictum that best characterizes fieldwork is "Things go awry." In this spirited account of his time spent in Southeast Asia, Raybeck describes several adventures and misadventures involving field research, as well as the understanding, humility and bruises that these experiences leave behind. Since fieldwork is situated, Raybeck's treatment also includes rich descriptions of Kelantanese society and culture, addressing such topics as kinship, linguistics, gender relations, economics, and political structures. Through the lively pages of this narrative, readers gain insight into the human dimension of the fieldwork undertaking, a sense of how the anthropologist builds rapport in a research setting, and how reliable information is obtained.