Research Methods In The Field: Eleven Anthropological Accounts

Research Methods in the Field: Eleven anthropological accounts is more than a textbook of research methodologies employed by anthropologists in the course of field work; it provides eleven accounts of the practical experience of working anthropologits. It focuses on the methods employed by them the ways in which those methods were modified to suit the particular conditions in which they worked, and the reasons why particular methods were chose. These are hands-on, warts-and-al accounts of how anthropologits go about field research.
Contents :
Introduction Participant Observation and Language learning The Self as research instrument Doing anthropology at home Informatis and research assistants Census taking, question construction, and the use of database technology Long-run quantative data collection from household samples Group interviewing on sensitive subjects in the PNG highlands Obtaining information from a school-age sub-population in Sri Lanka Hear me talking to you-doing oral biography When the people have a past: Historical data in ethnographic study Little words and big ears: Aborigines, intellectual sparks and oral history in the town of Stawell Anthropological fieldwork and field methodology: A select bibliography Notes on contributors