Anthropologists in the Field Cases in Participant Observation

Name: Anthropologists in the Field Cases in Participant Observation
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ISBN: 9780231130059

ISBN-10: 0231130058

ISBN-13: 9780231130059

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lynne Hume, Jane Mulcock

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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…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

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.



Positioned Engagement Awkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations



Ethical Engagements Awkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico



Multi-sited Engagements Disclosure and Interaction in a Monastery



Going Beyond "The West" and "The Rest": Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand



Multiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture



He's Not a Spy, He's One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting



Dissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle



Doing Ethnography in 'One's Own Ethnic Community': The Experience of an Awkward Insider



"And I Can't feel at Home in this World Anymore": Fieldwork in Two Settings



"Yo, bitch..." and Other Challenges: Bringing High-risk Ethnography into the Discourse



Reflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users



Closed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography



Living in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi



Performing and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions



Not Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease



Multi-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork



Multi-sited Methodologies: "Homework" between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati