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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2017
The period I have spent exploring tribal societies in Yemen's northernmost Saʿdah area spans—with interruptions—around fifteen years, and I can hardly imagine a more profound set of changes converging on and in one place. For an anthropologist, these changes are of a political, spatial, technological, and methodological nature, all of which are deeply intertwined.
1 For an overview on anthropology's history of studying cultures at a distance, see Robben, Antonius C. G. M., “Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Iraq War,” in Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War, ed. Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 1–23 Google Scholar.
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4 On the disintegration of the former home–field binary, see, for example, Kraemer, Jordan “Doing Fieldwork, BRB: Locating the Field on and with Emerging Media,” in eFieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World, ed. Sanjek, Roger and Tratner, Susan W. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), 113–31Google Scholar.
