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Penned By Advanced Graduate Students Amidst Their Dissertation Fieldwork, These Provocative Essays Capture The Challenges And Intricacies Of That Anthropological Rite Of Passage. The Collections Authors Frankly Portray The Mistakes They Made In The Field, Their Struggle To Analyze The Events Unfolding Before Their Eyes, The Psychological And Emotional Frustration Seemingly Endemic To Doing Ethnography, And The Ethical Complexities Of Researching Living People. The Authors Present These Essays Not As Models Of Ideal Fieldwork Or As A Series Of Lessons About How To Overcome Potential Hurdles One Faces In The Field, But Rather As A Window Into The Complexities Of Being An Ethnographer In The Contemporary World. Against A Backdrop Of Subject Populations Increasingly Informed About Global Relations Of Power And, More Specifically, Informed About The Topography Of American Imperialism, These Humanistic Essays Vividly Reflect Recent Shifts In Both The Focus And Methods Of Anthropological Research, As Well As The Dilemmas Underlying The Construction Of Anthropological Knowledge. They Are Meant To Spark Discussion And Debate. While Tailored To An Audience Relatively New To Ethnographic Fiel

Author

Andrew M. Gardner, David M. Hoffman, Andrew Gardner

Publisher

Waveland Press, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781577664512

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Science, Science

Rating

3.7 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14