Anthropologists in the field : cases in participant observation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hume, Lynne, Mulcock, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Awkward spaces, productive places / Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock
  • Awkward intimacies : prostitution, politics, and fieldwork in urban Mexico / Patty Kelly
  • Disclosure and interaction in a monastery / Michael V. Angrosino
  • Going beyond "the West" and "the rest" : conducting non-western, non-native ethnography in northern Thailand / Ida Fadzillah
  • Multiple roles, statuses, and allegiances : exploring the ethnographic process in disability culture / Russell Shuttleworth
  • "He's not a spy; he's one of us" : ethnographic positioning in a middle-class setting / Martin Forsey
  • Dissent and consent : negotiating the adoption triangle / Jonathan Telfer
  • Doing ethnography in "one's own ethnic community" : the experience of an awkward insider / Val Colic-Peisker
  • "And I can't feel at home in this world anymore" : fieldwork in two settings / Jim Birckhead
  • "Yo, bitch..." and other challenges : bringing high-risk ethnography into the discourse / Sylvie C. Tourigny
  • Reflections on fieldwork among Kenyan heroin users / Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando Hundt
  • Closed doors : ethical issues with prison ethnography / John M. Coggeshall
  • Living in sheds : suicide, friendship, and research among the Tiwi / Gary Robinson
  • Performing and constructing research as guesthood in the study of religions / Graham Harvey
  • Not quite at home : field envy and new age ethnographic dis-ease / Stewart Muir
  • Multi-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork / Sawa Kurotani
  • Multi-sited methodologies : "homework" in Australia, Fiji, and Kiribati / Katerina Martina Teaiwa.