Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780470657157
Year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 672


Description:
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.