Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition (Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Band 9) - Softcover

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9780470657157: Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition (Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Band 9)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470657154 ISBN 13: 9780470657157
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer’s experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe.

  • Offers an international collection of classic and contemporary readings to provide students with a broad understanding of historical, methodological, ethical, reflexive and stylistic issues in fieldwork
  • Features 16 new articles and revised part introductions, with additional insights into the experience of conducting ethnographic fieldwork
  • Explores the importance of fieldwork practice in achieving the core theoretical and methodological goals of anthropology
  • Highlights the personal and professional challenges of field researchers, from issues of professional identity, fieldwork relations, activism, and the conflicts, hazards and ethical concerns of community work.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. He is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil (1989) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), and editor of Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with Carolyn Nordstrom, 1995) and Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (2010).

Jeffrey A. Sluka is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. He is past Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, author of Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish: Popular Support for the IRA and INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto (1989), and editor of Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (2000).

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Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer's experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards, and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe.

With 16 new articles and completely revised editorial material throughout, this second edition includes insights from fieldworkers during earlier periods of the discipline, to the contemporary reflections on engaged anthropological research. Divided into 10 parts covering the major subthemes of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology is an essential collection of international readings for the anthropology student and practicing fieldworker.

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Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer's experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards, and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe.

With 16 new articles and completely revised editorial material throughout, this second edition includes insights from fieldworkers during earlier periods of the discipline, to the contemporary reflections on engaged anthropological research. Divided into 10 parts covering the major subthemes of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology is an essential collection of international readings for the anthropology student and practicing fieldworker.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470657154
ISBN 13 
9780470657157
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
672
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