Anthropologists in the Field

Cases in Participant Observation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

All too often anthropologists and other social scientists go into the field with unrealistic expectations. Different cultural milieus are prime ground for misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and interrelational problems. This book is an excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, using familiar and not-so-familiar cultures as cases. The book covers participant observation and ethnographic interviewing, both short and long term. These methodologies are open to problems such as lack of communication, depression, hostility, danger, and moral and ethical dilemmas-problems that are usually sanitized for publication and ignored in the curriculum. Among the intriguing topics covered are sexualized and violent environments, secrecy and disclosure, multiple roles and allegiances, insider/outsider issues, and negotiating friendship and objectivity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-12-14
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231130042

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lynne Hume is associate professor in The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Jane Mulcock is a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology and sociology at the University of Western Australia.

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The co-editors of this work have done a marvelous job. -- James T. Richardson Anthropological Forum

Innehållsförteckning

Positioned Engagement Awkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations, by Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock Ethical Engagements Awkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico, by Patty Kelly Multi-sited Engagements Disclosure and Interaction in a Monastery, by Michael V. Angrosino Going Beyond "The West" and "The Rest": Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand, by Ida Fadzillah Multiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture, by Russell Shuttleworth He's Not a Spy, He's One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting, by Martin Forsey Dissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle, by Jonathan Telfer Doing Ethnography in 'One's Own Ethnic Community': The Experience of an Awkward Insider, by Val Colic-Peisker "And I Can't feel at Home in this World Anymore": Fieldwork in Two Settings, by Jim Birckhead "Yo, bitch..." and Other Challenges: Bringing High-risk Ethnography into the Discourse, by Sylvie C. Tourigny Reflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users, by Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando Hundt Closed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography, by John M. Coggeshall Living in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi, by Gary Robinson Performing and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions, by Graham Harvey Not Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease, by Stewart Muir Multi-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork, by Sawa Kurotani Multi-sited Methodologies: "Homework" between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa