@article{ref1,
title="Anthropology from the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment",
journal="Anthropology and humanism",
year="2008",
author="Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley",
volume="33",
number="1‐2",
pages="1-11",
abstract="In this deeply personal account, I describe for the first time how I was assaulted, beaten, and raped by a gang of hired thugs or rogue police in a north central Indian state during fieldwork in 1992. A graphic narrative of this event leads into a brief meditation on the sorts of things readers would typically prefer not to know, and on our compulsion as engaged anthropologists to bring them into the conversation anyway. I conclude with the persisting hope of survivors of violence—like many of our ethnographic interlocutors in arenas of conflict—that healing is possible and that change toward justice can occur. Finally, I write of an anthropology that speaks from a spiritual, political, and intellectual paradigm which recognizes that, unspoken or not, values of the heart are as central to our field as those of the mind.<p />",
language="",
issn="1559-9167",
doi="10.1111/j.1548-1409.2008.00001.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1409.2008.00001.x"
}