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Author : Lynne Hume,Jane Mulcock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231130059
An excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, this book covers short- and long-term participant observation and ethnographic interviewing and uses diverse cultures as cases.
Author : Paul Dresch,Wendy James,David J. Parkin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1571818006
A dozen papers reflect the newer perspective of studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks beyond traditional anthropological fieldwork. New wave scholars reflect on their field and desk experiences and may let the field come to them; e.g., an ethnomusicologist studies the fieldwork of others and observes non- Western performances in a British museum. Includes bandw photos of authors' studies and a substantial bibliography. The editors and contributors are from the U. of Oxford, where the social and cultural anthropology department held a 1997 seminar on the teaching of methods on which this volume is based. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bonnie L. Hewlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351385251
This book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social, political, economic, health, and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork. It also sheds important light on aspects often considered "secret" or taboo. From anthropologists just starting out to those with over forty years in the field, these researchers offer the benefit of their experience conducting research in diverse cultures around the world. The contributions combine engaging personal narrative with consideration of theory and methods. The volume emphasizes how being adaptable, and aware, of the many risks and rewards of ethnographic research can help foster success in quantitative and qualitative data collection. This is a valuable resource for students of anthropological methods and those about to embark on fieldwork for the first time.
Author : Simon Coleman,Peter Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000190090
Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. The nature of 'locality' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must now be maintained and represented in relation to widening (and fragmenting) social frames and networks. Such developments have raised questions concerning the nature of ethnographic presence and scales of comparison. From the social space of a cybercafe to cities in India, the UK and South Africa among others, this book features a wide range of ethnographic studies that provide new ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'. It shows that rather than taking key fieldwork processes such as globalization and mobility for granted, anthropologists are well-placed to examine and critique the totalizing assumptions behind these notions.
Author : Prof. George Gmelch,Prof. Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520964211
This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of the student field workers the authors have mentored over the years, In the Field makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.
Author : Peggy Golde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520054226
What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? Here we see highly trained and qualified women anthropologists examining their own efforts to live and work in alien cultures in many parts of the world. New chapters have been added to this ground-breaking volume, and each contributor is, in one way or another, a pioneer. All have chosen to devote their lives and energies to the understanding of worlds not their own. All have felt it important to explain what they do, why they do it, and how they feel about their work. Cultures vary widely in their perception of a woman engaged in anthropological field work. Each of these women has had to deal with the influence of her gender, as well as the subject of her study, on the mechanics of establishing a living-working relationship with people of another culture. The diversity of their responses to the presence of a foreign woman at work in their midst gives the book an invaluable cross-cultural perspective, as does the great variety of reactions and strategies on the part of the authors themselves. Besides providing rare insight into field work in general, Women in the Field mirrors the difficulties and delights of any person thrust into an unfamiliar culture.
Author : Akhil Gupta,James Ferguson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520342392
Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"—the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. In an era when anthropologists are studying topics that resist geographical localization, this book initiates a long-overdue discussion of the political and epistemological implications of the disciplinary commitment to fieldwork. These innovative, stimulating essays—carefully chosen to form a coherent whole—interrogate the notion of "the field," showing how the concept is historically constructed and exploring the consequences of its dominance. The essays discuss anthropological work done in places (in refugee camps, on television) or among populations (gays and lesbians, homeless people in the United States) that challenge the traditional boundaries of "the field." The contributors suggest alternative methodologies appropriate for contemporary problems and ultimately propose a reformation of the discipline of anthropology.
Author : Ellen Lewin,William Leap
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252065182
"Lesbian and gay anthropologists write in "Out in the Field" about their research and personal experiences in conducting fieldwork, about the ethical and intellectual dilemmas they face in writing about lesbian or gay populations, and about the impact on their careers of doing lesbian/gay research. The first volume in which lesbian and gay anthropologists discuss personal experiences, "Out in the Field" offers compelling illustrations of professional lives both closeted and out to colleagues and fieldwork informants. It also concerns aligning career goals with personal sexual preferences and speaks directly to issues of representation and authority currently being explored throughout the social sciences.
Author : Robert Parkin,Anne de Sales
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458430
Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generally skeptical of theory. While there are contrasts between the two traditions, this is essentially a false view. It is this aspect of French anthropology that this collection addresses, in the belief that the neglect of many of these figures outside France is seriously distorting our view of the French tradition of anthropology overall. At the same time, the collection will provide a positive view of the French tradition of ethnography, stressing its combination of technical competence and the sympathies of its practitioners for its various ethnographic subjects.
Author : C. W. Watson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047489284
A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Author : Steffen Dalsgaard,Morten Nielsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330889
In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.
Author : Vered Amit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134640683
Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the ethnographer in the field, and for the clear separation of professional and personal areas of activity. The very existence of 'the field' as an entity separate from everyday life is questioned. Fresh perspectives on contemporary fieldwork are provided by diverse case-studies from across North America and Europe. These contributions give a thorough appraisal of what fieldwork is and should be, and an extra dimension is added through fascinating accounts of the personal experiences of anthropologists in the field.
Author : Les Field,Richard G. Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000180541
How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public" or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred, leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists. The image of anthropologists "reaching out" from protected academic positions to a vaguely defined "public" is out of touch with the working conditions of these anthropologists, especially those junior and untenured. The papers in this volume show that anthropology is put to work in diverse ways today. They indicate that the new conditions of anthropological work require significant departures from canonical principles of cultural anthropology, such as replacing ethnographic rapport with multiple forms of collaboration. This volume's goal is to help graduate students and early-career scholars accept these changes without feeling something essential to anthropology has been lost. There really is no other choice for most young anthropologists.
Author : Thomas Rhys Williams
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000589971
This book covers a huge range of methods used by anthropologists in the study of culture.
Author : Morris Freilich
Publisher : Schenkman Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037086704