Ethnographic fieldwork
Subtitle: an anthropological reader
By: edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka.
Contributors: Robben, Antonius C. G. M.; Sluka, Jeffrey A.
Series: Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology -- 9; Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology -- 9.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9781405125932; 9781405125925
Subjects: Ethnology -- Field work
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-593) and index.