Fieldwork and the Self

​The Importance of Being Wrong: Reflections on 35 Years of Methodological Blunders, Empirical Errors, Theoretical culs-de-sac, and Historical Misinterpretations.- A Sociological-Anthropological Gaze on Changing Perspectives on Southeast Asia: Personal Interventions in Discipline and Area.- Salem to Sumatra (and more improvised itineraries): Reflections on a Quarter Century of Shifting Tacks.- Ethnography of the Homo Secretus: Inside Secret Societies and Societies with Secrets in Vietnam.- Engaging and Distancing: An Intellectual, Moral and Emotional Investment in the Field.- The Anthropology of Remembering: Memory as a Complementary Ethnography.- Silencing as Method: Leaving Malay Studies Out?.- the Role of Muslim Southeast Asia in Global Religious Markets.- Translating Brunei: Between Self-Reflexivity and Literary Study.- Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Islamic Governance and the Idea of Context.- Revisiting the Southeast Asian House: A Filipino's Perspective.- Writing the 'Local', Provincial and Public into Area Narratives.- The Political Construction of Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Career of a Concept.- At Home in the World': Reflections on Home Scholarship, Theory and Area Studies.- Researching Borneo Language Description, Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Issues of Nomenclature and Shifting Identities.- Engaging with the Bugis and Christian Pelras: Reflections on fieldwork in South Sulawesi.

About the Author:

Jérémy Jammes is Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at Lyon Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Lyon) and Research Fellow of the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO), France. He has published widely on Southeast Asian geopolitics and religions, including a monograph on Vietnamese Cao Đài religion (2014), and coedited volumes on evangelical networks, Chrétiens évangéliques d'Asie du Sud-Est: Expériences locales d'une ferveur conquérante (Evangelical Christians in Southeast Asia: Local experiences of conquering fervour, 2016, with Pascal Bourdeaux), on Islam, Muslim piety as economy: Markets, meaning and morality in Southeast Asia (2020, with Johan Fischer), and on contemporary geopolitical issues in Southeast Asia. He was previously Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and also Deputy Director and Head of Publications of the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), Thailand. He is coeditor-in-chief of the Routledge 'Studies in Material Religion and Spirituality' series.

Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and Emeritus Professor in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, UK. He has long-standing interests in the sociology and anthropology of Southeast Asia. His recent publications are UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in comparative perspective (ed., 2016), and coedited books on Human insecurities in Southeast Asia (2016), Borneo studies in history, society and culture (2017), Tourism and ethnodevelopment (2018), Tourism in East and Southeast Asia (2018, 4-volume reader), Tourism in South-East Asia (2020), Indigenous Amazonia, regional development and territorial dynamics: Contentious issues (2020), Continuity and change in Brunei Darussalam (2021) and Origins, history and social structure in Brunei Darussalam (2021).