Stumbling toward truth
Subtitle: anthropologists at work
By: [edited by] Philip R. DeVita.
Contributors: DeVita, Philip R., 1932-
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Prospect Heights, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Ethnology -- Field work; Ethnologists -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An anthropologist as travel writer / Robert Tonkinson; title: Getting below the surface / Douglas Raybeck; title: Of softball bats and fishnets : a summer in the Alaskan bush / George Gmelch; title: The first Rotumans / Alan Howard; title: Navigating Nigerian bureaucracies : or "Why can't you beg?" she demanded / Elizabeth A. Eames; title: Two tales from the Trukese taproom / Mac Marshall; title: Reflections of a shy ethnographer : foot-in-the-mouth is not fatal / Juliana Flinn; title: Greasy hands and smelly clothes : fieldworker or fisherman / Philip DeVita; title: Of teamwork, faith, and trust in western Sumatra / Carol J. Colfer; title: Some consequences of a fieldworker's gender for cross-cultural research / Susan Dwyer-Shick; title: Fieldwork that failed / Linda L. Kent; title: Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing; title: Ethnocentrism and the Abelam / Richard Scaglion; title: What drives the birds? molting ducks, freshman essays, and cultural logic / Phyllis Morrow; title: What did the earthquake mean? / Alice Pomponio; title: Centering : lessons learned from Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer; title: Don't mess with eagle power! / James Clifton; title: A very bad disease of the arms / Michael Kearney; title: Too many bananas, not enough pineapples, and no watermelons at all / David Counts; title: Lessons in introductory anthropology from the Bakairi Indians / Debra S. Picchi; title: Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda; title: Pigs of the forest and other unwritten papers / Terence E. Hays; title: Lesson from the field : gullibility and the hazards of money lending / Cindy Hull; title: To die on Ambae : on the possibility of doing fieldwork forever / William L. Rodman and Margaret C. Rodman; title: A letter from the field / Marty Zelenietz; title: Turning tears into nothing / Miles Richardson; title: Did you? / Ward H. Goodenough; title: Munju / Trecie Melnick; title: The inseparability of reason and emotion in the anthrpological perspective : perceptions upon leaving the field / Kris Heggenbougen.