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Title Anthropologists in the field : cases in participant observation / edited by Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.800723 An86 2004    ---  Available
Description xxvii, 265 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-257) and index.
Contents Awkward spaces, productive places / Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock -- Awkward intimacies : prostitution, politics, and fieldwork in urban Mexico / Patty Kelly -- Disclosure and interaction in a monastery / Michael V. Angrosino -- Going beyond "the West" and "the rest" : conducting non-western, non-native ethnography in northern Thailand / Ida Fadzillah -- Multiple roles, statuses, and allegiances : exploring the ethnographic process in disability culture / Russell Shuttleworth -- "He's not a spy; he's one of us" : ethnographic positioning in a middle-class setting / Martin Forsey -- Dissent and consent : negotiating the adoption triangle / Jonathan Telfer -- Doing ethnography in "one's own ethnic community" : the experience of an awkward insider / Val Colic-Peisker -- "And I can't feel at home in this world anymore" : fieldwork in two settings / Jim Birckhead -- "Yo, bitch ..." and other challenges : bringing high-risk ethnography into the discourse / Sylvie C. Tourigny -- Reflections on fieldwork among Kenyan heroin users / Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando Hundt -- Closed doors : ethical issues with prison ethnography / John M. Coggeshall -- Living in sheds : suicide, friendship, and research among the Tiwi / Gary Robinson -- Performing and constructing research as guesthood in the study of religions / Graham Harvey -- Not quite at home : field envy and new age ethnographic dis-ease / Stewart Muir -- Multi-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork / Sawa Kurotani -- Multi-sited methodologies : "homework" in Australia, Fiji, and Kiribati / Katerina Martina Teaiwa.
Subject Participant observation.
Ethnology -- Field work.
Ethnology -- Methodology.
Anthropological ethics.
Added Author Hume, Lynne.
Mulcock, Jane.
ISBN 0231130058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
023113004X (alk. paper)

 
    
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