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A Handbook for Social Science Field Research provides both novice and experienced researcher with valuable insights into a key list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods useful when doing fieldwork. Through essays on everything from ethnography to case study, archival research, oral history, surveys, secondary data analysis and ethics, this refreshing new collection offers `tales from the field' by renowned scholars across various disciplines.
Essentials for Ethnography: Ethnographic Methods
Essentials for Ethnography: Ethnographic Methods
The process of doing ethnographic research was a kind of insider information until about 1970, when Peggy Golde edited and published Women in the Field. Until then, the prevailing wisdom was that fieldwork was something individual and idiosyncratic to be learned by doing and therefore not teachable. There were accounts of fieldwork, to be sure, but their role was primarily to enhance the mystique of the heroic anthropologist braving unfamiliar customs, suspicious natives, and horrible hygiene in order to add to the Science of Man. Once you had done it, you could sit and drink beer and swap stories by the hour. But fieldwork was like combat in that you had no idea what it was like until you had ...
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