num_pages: 328
description:       "Definitive and well-rounded. . . . Explores how anthropologists        manage issues of identity and sexuality in field research and professional        life. In an era when the field worker's positionality is critical to research        and ethnographic writing, this insightful book has much to say to gay        and straight researchers alike." -- Louise Lamphere, University of        New Mexico      "Addresses sensitive, controversial, and tabooed subjects. . . .        Out in the Field will be read by a variety of audiences, within        and outside of anthropology." -- Jean Jackson, Massachusetts Institute        of Technology      Lesbian and gay anthropologists write candidly 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.      Geoffrey Burkhart, Liz Goodman, Delores M. Walters, Walter        L. Williams, Sabine Lang, Ellen Lewin, William L. Leap, Ralph Bolton,        Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline Davis, Will Roscoe, Esther Newton,        Stephen O. Murray, James Wafer, Kath Weston, Sue-Ellen Jacobs  
language: English
title: Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
titlecomplete: Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology, Lesbian, LGBT
ratings_count: 13
publisher: University of Illinois Press