Doing Fieldwork
Subtitle: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781403969095
Subjects: Ethnography; Research methods: general; Field Research In Social Sciences; Ethnology And Ethnography; Social Science; Textbooks; Sociology; Field work; Anthropology - Cultural; Research; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Archaeology / Anthropology; Anthropology - General; Developing countries; Ethnology
Description: Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriented books, articles, or reports. The reader is taught how to combine historic and contemporary documents (e.g. archives, newspapers, government reports) with fieldwork methods (e.g. participant-observation, interviews, and self-reporting) to create ethnographic studies of disadvantaged populations. Anthropologists, sociologists, folklorists and educational researchers will equally benefit from this critical approach to research.