Dispatches from the field : neophyte ethnographers in a changing world / [edited by] Andrew Gardner, David M. Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Andrew, 1969- author.

Hoffman, David M., author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Anthropology online.

Anthropology online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 235 pages).

Other Title:

aDispatches from the field

Place of Publication:

Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, Inc., [2006]

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Fieldwork and writing 'from' the field / David M. Hoffman and Andrew M. Gardner

Swimming through fieldwork : constructing trust in the Mexican Caribbean / David M. Hoffman

Sleeping with one eye open : the perils of fieldwork in a Brazilian juvenile prison / Kristen Drybeard

Pangs of guilt : transnational ethnography, motherhood, and moral dilemmas in Central America / Kate Goldade

The unwelcome guest : episodes from a year in Bahrain / Andrew M. Gardner

Of goats and foreigners : research lessons on Soqotra Island, Yemen / Nathalie Peutz

Anger management : working through identity and objectification in Indonesia / Greg Simon

Fieldwork in coca country : investigating democracy and development in the Bolivian Andes / Caroline S. Conzelman

Dispatch from the Sahelian range : renegotiating expectations and relationships among the Wodaabe of Niger / Karen Marie Greenough

Belief in "Cancer Alley" : church, chemicals, and community in New Sarpy, Louisiana / Gwen Ottinger

Laboring under illusionism : notes from the study of French magic / Graham M. Jones

Bonding with the field : on researching surrogate motherhood arrangements in Israel / Elly Teman

Erasing SARS : outbreak reflections on the ethnographic process / Megan Tracy

Initiating change : doing action research in Japan / Akihiro Ogawa

The 'other' city of angels : ethnography with the Bangkok police / Eric J. Haanstad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Anthropology online). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

683548958

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Restricted for use by site license.