Anthropologists in the Field

Cases in Participant Observation
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-13004-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hume, Lynne

Mulcock, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volks- und Völkerkundliche Museen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Positioned EngagementAwkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations, by Lynne Hume and Jane MulcockEthical EngagementsAwkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico, by Patty KellyMulti-sited EngagementsDisclosure and Interaction in a Monastery, by Michael V. AngrosinoGoing Beyond "The West" and "The Rest": Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand, by Ida FadzillahMultiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture, by Russell ShuttleworthHe's Not a Spy, He's One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting, by Martin ForseyDissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle, by Jonathan TelferDoing 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. TourignyReflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users, by Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando HundtClosed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography, by John M. CoggeshallLiving in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi, by Gary RobinsonPerforming and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions, by Graham HarveyNot Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease, by Stewart MuirMulti-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork, by Sawa KurotaniMulti-sited Methodologies: "Homework" between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa

Über Autor(innen)

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.