Anthropologists in the Field
Subtitle: Cases in Participant Observation
Contributors: Lynne Hume (Editor); Jane Mulcock (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231130042
Subjects: Ethnography; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Anthropological ethics; Ethnology; Field work; Methodology; Participant observation
First sentence: In the early spring of 1999 the people of the ejido Francisco I. Madero were seeking to reclaim their land-four hectares located at the end of a lonely dirt road, eight kilometers east of the bustling city center of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas, Mexico.