Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia
"A colleague recommended this as a good intro-level exploration of the ethnographic fieldwork experience. The author's candid observations and comfortable prose convinced me. I look forward to teaching it this fall." --Doc Billingsley, Washington University"... an engaging, entertaining, and highly readable introduction to the challenges and joys of doing ethnography. The author uses humor—more often than not, directed at himself—to illustrate important concepts such as using both qualitative and quantitative methods, establishing rapport, participant observation, direct contact with the subject population, and both culture shock and return culture shock." --Margaret Bodemer, California Polytechnic State University