Ethnographic Fieldwork

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An Anthropological Reader

Series: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition presents a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings that explore the broad scope, complexity, and varied nature of ethnographic fieldwork. The updated edition includes 16 new articles and revised introductions, offering deeper insights into the practical, ethical, and methodological challenges faced by anthropologists conducting fieldwork worldwide. It examines the personal and professional experiences of researchers, highlighting issues such as professional identity, community engagement, activism, and ethical dilemmas.
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This volume is ideal for students and scholars of anthropology seeking a thorough understanding of ethnographic methods, ethical concerns, and fieldwork challenges.

This text 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.

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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.

Series: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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The collection has been praised for effectively addressing the critical relationship between ethnographers and their research subjects, serving as a strong conclusion to an exceptional anthology. (Anthropos, 2 October 2013)

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470657157

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 December 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Edited by Jeffrey A. Sluka

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 1021g

Pages: 672

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

About the Author

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology atUtrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of theNetherlands Society of Anthropology. He is the author of Sons ofthe Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict inBrazil (1989) and Political Violence and Trauma inArgentina (2005), and editor of Fieldwork Under Fire:Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with CarolynNordstrom, 1995) and Iraq at a Distance: What AnthropologistsCan Teach Us About the War (2010). Jeffrey A. Sluka is Associate Professor of SocialAnthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. He is past Chair ofthe Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand,a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, author ofHearts and Minds, Water and Fish: Popular Support for the IRAand INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto (1989), and editor ofDeath Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (2000).

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