Episode Synopsis "AA1: Fieldwork - Arriving in the Field"

One of a set of lectures given to students and staff at Sichuan University in November 2014. Arranged by Professor Xu Jun of Sichuan University as part of the collaborative project between that University and the Cambridge Rivers Project of the University of Cambridge. Delivered by Alan Macfarlane and filmed by Sarah Harrison.

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• AA10: Fieldwork - Questions from students and answers
• AA1: Fieldwork - Arriving in the Field
• AA2: Fieldwork - Living and communicating
• AA3: Fieldwork - Participation
• AA4: Fieldwork - Participation
• AA5: Fieldwork - Ethics
• AA6: Fieldwork - Recording information
• AA7: Fieldwork - Interviewing and oral history
• AA8: Fieldwork - Film recording - part 1
• AA9: Fieldwork - Film and sound recording - part 2
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• Advice on fieldwork filming in the Himalayas - Alan Macfarlane
• Alan Macfarlane dancing in a Gurung village
• Alan Macfarlane in conversation with a local shaman (jhankri) in a Himalayan community
• Alan Macfarlane in Gurung costume in Pokhara in 1999
• Alan Macfarlane on his supervisor Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf's work and influence
• Alan Macfarlane talking to Dilmaya Gurung in a Himalayan village
• Alan Macfarlane working on anthropological notes in Himalayan village in 1999
• An evening with a Gurung family in 1992
• Arranging for a bank account for a village family - 1992
• Arriving in Thak, a Gurung village, in 1993
• Balloon football and a picnic in Pokhara in 1992
• Beating and winnowing rice - learning how to do
• Brother-sister blessings at the festival of Dashain in 1994 in Nepal
• Buddhist ritual - participating in the ritual in the Himalayas
• Bundling wood in a Gurung village in 1992
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• Census taking in a Himalayan village
• Changes in film technologies and their effects on anthropological filming - Alan Macfarlane
• Checking the census in a Himalayan village
• Clearing fields and hoeing in a Himalayan village - learning how to do
• Clothing - adapting to wearing local clothes in the Himalayas
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• Dilmaya's memorial ritual in 1995 - participating in
• Driving to the Manaslu hotel in Kathmandu in 1993
• Early cameras and filming in Nepal - Alan Macfarlane
• Eating local food in the Himalayas
• Family picnic in Pokhara in 2000
• Fieldwork 1: Arriving
• Fieldwork diary - how it was kept in a Himalayan village
• Fieldwork in the Himalayas
• Film and fieldwork in the Himalayas - 1993
• Film-making among the Gurungs of central Nepal - Alan Macfarlane
• Flying from England and landing in Kathmandu in 1993
• Flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara in 1993
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• Gurung cultural centre - participating in its development in Pokhara
• Harvesting in a Himalayan village - participating
• Health and illness in a Himalayan village - reciprocating
• Hindu ritual - participating in one in a Himalayan community
• House and privacy - where one lives in a Himalayan community
• Housework in a Himalayan community - participating
• Interview of Bhuwansing Gurung - 1991
• Interview of Manu Gurung
• Leaving Pokhara - saying good-bye to family
• Looking at photos - sharing them in a Himalayan community
• Meeting up with family - Gurung family in Pokhara in the 1990's
• Multimedia book - the new potentials for combining film and text
• Mutual grooming in a Himalayan village - Gurungs and anthropologists
• Observing rituals in a Himalayan community
• Observing work in a Himalayan community
• Packing and going to Gatwick airport
• Packing and leaving a Himalayan community 1992-3
• Photographing in a Himalayan community
• Planting and ploughing - participation
• Playing with children in a Himalayan village
• Pokhara in 1993 and preparing for the fieldwork
• Premkumari and Sarah learning Gurung language
• Reflections on fieldwork among the Gurungs in 2014
• Reflections on fieldwork with the Gurungs in 2000 - Alan Macfarlane
• Reflections on forty years of fieldwork in a Himalayan community - Alan Macfarlane
• Reflections on using film in fieldwork - 2000
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• Sarah and the Thak database for film-making
• Sarah in conversation with Gurungs
• Sarah learning to weave in a Himalayan community
• Schools - teaching in a Himalayan community
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• Taking fieldwork notes in a Himalayan community
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• Thak tour - a tour of a Himalayan community
• The film interview project
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• Video filming in Nepal
• Village co-operative store in a Himalayan community
• Walking from Pokhara to Thak in 1993
• Watching sports and television in a Himalayan community
• What I have learnt from repeated visits to the Gurungs - 1999
• What I have learnt from the Gurungs - Alan Macfarlane
• Working with Badrasing Gurung
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