Ethnographic fieldwork an anthropological reader.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Malden Blackwell Pub. 2007Description: 616 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1405125926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405125934 (printed case hardback : alk. paper)
  • 978-1-4051-2592-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781405125932 (printed case hardback : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction / Jeffrey A. Sluka an Antonius C. G. M. Robben --- Part I: Beginnings --- Part II: Fieldwork Identity --- Part III: Fieldwork Relations and Rapport --- Part IV: The "Other" Talks Back --- Part V: Fieldwork Conflicts, Hazards, and Dangers --- Part VI: Fieldwork Ethics --- Part VII: Multi-Sited Fieldwork --- Part VIII. Sensorial Fieldwork --- Part IX: Reflective Ethnography --- Part X: Fictive Fieldwork and Fieldwork Novels.
Summary: "Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthology" provides readers with a good sense of the breadth, variation, and complexity of the fieldwork enterprise. Selections are therefore not restricted to discussions of data gathering proper, but include engaging work ranging from issues of professional identity and fieldwork relations to ethnographic writing. After reading Ethnographic Fieldwork, students will have a good sense of classic and contemporary reflections on fieldwork, the tensions between self and other, the relationships between anthropologists and informants, conflicts and ethical challenges, various types of ethnographic research, and different styles of writing about fieldwork.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 120.038 ASE Available 7549523-10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-593) and index.

Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction / Jeffrey A. Sluka an Antonius C. G. M. Robben --- Part I: Beginnings --- Part II: Fieldwork Identity --- Part III: Fieldwork Relations and Rapport --- Part IV: The "Other" Talks Back --- Part V: Fieldwork Conflicts, Hazards, and Dangers --- Part VI: Fieldwork Ethics --- Part VII: Multi-Sited Fieldwork --- Part VIII. Sensorial Fieldwork --- Part IX: Reflective Ethnography --- Part X: Fictive Fieldwork and Fieldwork Novels.

"Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthology" provides readers with a good sense of the breadth, variation, and complexity of the fieldwork enterprise. Selections are therefore not restricted to discussions of data gathering proper, but include engaging work ranging from issues of professional identity and fieldwork relations to ethnographic writing. After reading Ethnographic Fieldwork, students will have a good sense of classic and contemporary reflections on fieldwork, the tensions between self and other, the relationships between anthropologists and informants, conflicts and ethical challenges, various types of ethnographic research, and different styles of writing about fieldwork.