Being an anthropologist;
Subtitle: Fieldwork in eleven cultures,
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780030811050
Table of contents: title: Palauan journal / Homer G. Barnett. Preface -- August 23 - May 18 -- Epilogue -- Gopalpur, 1958 - 1960 / Alan R. Beals. Getting there -- Survival -- Friends and enemies -- Field assistants -- Learning the language -- Taking notes -- Research problems and tactics -- Similarities and differences -- Getting back -- Findings -- References -- Fieldwork in Malta / Jeremy F. Boissevain. Preface -- Preparation for the field -- Arrival and first contacts -- Adjustment to Hal-Farrug -- Participant observation -- Other research techniques -- Processing the data -- Analysis and writing up -- The wisdom of hindsight -- References -- Living and working with the Semai / Robert K. Dentan. Introduction -- Entering the field -- Living in the first settlement (“East Semai”) -- Problems in doing fieldwork -- Living in the second settlement (“West Semai”) -- Conclusion -- References -- Fieldwork in a complex society : Taiwan / Norma Diamond. Introduction -- Preparing for the field -- Selecting a village -- Adjusting to village life -- Women as fieldworkers -- Some problems of being an American -- Field assistants -- The use of written records -- Interviewing and observing -- The use of projective tests -- Recording field data -- Evaluation of fieldwork -- Fieldwork among the Tiwi, 1928 - 1929 / C. W. M. Hart -- Getting started -- Getting into the kinship system -- Time on my hands -- Some unanswered questions about kinship -- Answers in genealogies -- The age factor -- Lament -- References -- Fieldwork in Ghurka country / John T. Hitchcock. Prologue -- December and January (1960-1961) -- March through December (1961) -- January through May (1962) -- Journal -- References -- Films -- Appendix -- The Hutterites : fieldwork in a North American communal society / John A. Hostetler and Gertrude Enders Huntington. Preface -- Establishing contact -- A period of evaluation and incubation -- Delineating the research problem -- The research design -- Entering the community -- Living with the colony people -- Making the documentary film -- Concluding observations -- References -- Fieldwork among the vice lords of Chicago / R. Lincoln Keiser. Introduction -- Picking an area and topic -- Getting established -- Gathering the data -- The problem of emotional reactions -- The problem of writing up the data -- References -- Changing Japan : field research / Edward Norbeck -- Background -- The rural community -- Choosing the community -- Conducting the research -- Recording information -- Urban research -- Problems -- References -- Fieldwork among the Menomini / George and Louise Spindler. The beginning -- Entrée and rapport -- Sampling -- Sociocultural index schedule -- The Rorschach -- Expressive autobiographic interview -- Participant observation -- Husband and wife in the field -- Culture shock -- References.