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"The nature of anthropological fieldwork changes from generation to generation, reflecting current personal, moral and political issues. This collection addresses the central position of fieldwork in modern social anthropology, examining previous works on the subject and locating a discussion o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Watson, C. W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, ©1999.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Anthropologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Anthropology > Fieldwork
Anthropology > Philosophy
Veldwerk.
Culturele antropologie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The quality of being there / C.W. Watson
  • Fictions of fieldwork: depicting the 'self' in ethnographic writing (Italy) / Cris Shore
  • Location and relocation: home, 'the field' and anthropological ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) / Katy Gardner
  • On ethnographic experience: formative and informative (Nias, Indonesia) / Andrew Beatty
  • Learning to be friends: participant observation amongst English schoolchildren (the Midlands, England) / Allison James
  • The end in the beginning: New Year at Rizong (the Himalayas) / Anna Grimshaw
  • A diminishment: a death in the field (Kerinci, Indonesia) / C.W. Watson.

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