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"A stunning, emotionally charged, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically crafted fieldwork memoir. This is a book I will teach often, ... More

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In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing ... More

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow, " as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ... More

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Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the ... More

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The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the ... More

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They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both ... More

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In her new book, distinguished anthropologist June Nash tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems ... More

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Drawing on anthropological fieldwork, this book presents case studies illustrating the invention or re-conceptualization of heritages and traditions ... More

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"In recent decades anthropologists have learned to think of themselves as prisoners of text. In the new orthodoxy, ethnography is best viewed as a ... More

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Using network visualization and the study of the dynamics of marriage choices, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems expands the theory of ... More

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In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a ... More

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One of anthropology's premier writers on fieldwork methodology looks at the essential elements that constitute the art of his discipline. In The Art ... More

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In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which ... More

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This text provides readers with a broad overview of the range and complexity of fieldwork in anthropology. The updated selections offer insight into ... More

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This book desribes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumlation of knowledge about something you don't know much about to begin with, ... More

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The postmodern opposition between theory and lived reality has led in part to an anthropological turn to "dialogic" or "reflexive" approaches. ... More

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Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of ... More

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With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore, this volume contains personal, imaginative ... More

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"Resonance" gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork resumes in ... More

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Introductory textbook for qualitative methods classes done in the form of a comic book.

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What happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous ... More

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"...an excellent collection of anthropological autobiographical essays focusing on the positionality and resource of the self in ethnography...The ... More

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Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection ... More

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