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Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology /

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This comparative investigation looks critically at this research prac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: MacClancy, Jeremy, Fuentes, Agustin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Colección:Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Centralizing fieldwork / Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes
  • The dos and don'ts of fieldwork / Geoffrey A. Harrison
  • The anthropologist as a primatologist : mental journeys of a fieldworker / Volker Sommer
  • Primate fieldwork and its human contexts in southern Madagascar / Robert W. Sussman
  • Problem animals or problem people? : ethics, politics and practice or conflict between community perspectives and fieldwork on conservation / Phyllis C. Lee
  • Ecological anthropology and primatology : fieldwork practices and mutual benefits / Juichi Yamagiwa
  • Lost in translation : field primatology, culture, and interdisciplinary approaches / Nobuyuki Kutsukake
  • Measuring meaning and understanding in primatological and biological anthropology fieldwork : context and practice / Agustín Fuentes
  • Fieldwork as research process and community engagement / Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick
  • Framing the quantitative within the qualitative : why biological anthropologists do fieldwork / Lyliane Rosetta
  • Considerations on field methods used to assess non-human primate feeding behaviours and human food intake in terms of nutritional requirements / Claude Marcel Hladik
  • Anthropobiological surveys in the field : a reflection on the bioethics of human medical and DNA surveys / Alain Froment
  • Field schools in Central America : playing a pivotal role in the formation of modern field primatologists / Katherine C. MacKinnon
  • The narrator's stance : story-telling and science at Berenty Reserve / Alison Jolly
  • Natural homes : primate fieldwork and the anthropological method / Pamela J. Asquith
  • Popularizing fieldwork : examples from primatology and biological anthropology / Jeremy MacClancy.