Blunders in the Field: An Ethnographic Situation among the Drung people in Southwest China

Stéphane Gros (1)

1 CEH - Centre d'Études Himalayennes

This chapter discusses the "entanglements" at the heart of participant observation and ethnographic practice, and the need for exploring the cultural and political conditions of ethnography in a socialist state setting such as that of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Mots clés: Drung people; Southwest China

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Stéphane Gros. Blunders in the Field: An Ethnographic Situation among the Drung people in Southwest China. Turner, Sarah. Red stamps and gold stars: fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia, NIAS Press, pp.43-60, 2014, 978‐87‐7694‐132‐1. ⟨halshs-01673889⟩