num_pages: 432
description: Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures--Frank Cushing Franz Boas W. H. R. Rivers Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead--and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts especially ethnographies. Unique in conception this volume contributes importantly to current debates on writing texts and reflexivity in anthropology.
language: English
title: Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology
publisher: Cornell University Press