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Ethnographers In The Field [electronic resource] : The Psychology of Research
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wengle, John L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Fieldwork--Psychological aspects.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology--Fieldwork--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- A study of how doing field research submerged in a different culture impacts one's sense of identity. ""Wengle documents convincingly, and with a great deal of sensitivity to and empathy for his informants, what fieldworking ethnographers undergo while anthropologizing. . . . If one wants to understand what kind of data ethnographers generate, what kind of facts they notice, what kinds of events they record (rather than others that they could have generated, noticed or recorded, but did not) reading Wengle's book is indispensable. It goes a long way toward doing awa
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Prologue; Part I: Understanding Fieldwork; 1. On Death and Fieldwork; 2. Fighting Back: Identity Maintenance in the Field; Part II: Plain Old Everyday Fieldwork; 3. The Typical Field Experience; Part III: Fieldwork as a Study in Extremes; 4. A South American Odyssey; 5. Trauma in the Field: Reflections on Malinowski's Fieldwork; 6. Death and Rebirth in Fieldwork: An Archetypal Case; Part IV: Conclusion; 7. Notes and Fragments; Appendix: Sample Questionnaire; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC:
- 817893138
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