Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the
memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists,
sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a
deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites
across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the
whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to
locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of
growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science.
Above all, this is a book about relationships—multi-layered relationships among
people encountered in