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Book SynopsisAn excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, this book covers short- and long-term participant observation and ethnographic interviewing and uses diverse cultures as cases.
Trade ReviewThe co-editors of this work have done a marvelous job. -- James T. Richardson Anthropological Forum
Table of ContentsPositioned Engagement Awkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations, by Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock Ethical Engagements Awkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico, by Patty Kelly Multi-sited Engagements Disclosure and Interaction in a Monastery, by Michael V. Angrosino Going Beyond "The West" and "The Rest": Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand, by Ida Fadzillah Multiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture, by Russell Shuttleworth He's Not a Spy, He's One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting, by Martin Forsey Dissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle, by Jonathan Telfer Doing Ethnography in 'One's Own Ethnic Community': The Experience of an Awkward Insider, by Val Colic-Peisker "And I Can't feel at Home in this World Anymore": Fieldwork in Two Settings, by Jim Birckhead "Yo, bitch..." and Other Challenges: Bringing High-risk Ethnography into the Discourse, by Sylvie C. Tourigny Reflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users, by Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando Hundt Closed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography, by John M. Coggeshall Living in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi, by Gary Robinson Performing and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions, by Graham Harvey Not Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease, by Stewart Muir Multi-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork, by Sawa Kurotani Multi-sited Methodologies: "Homework" between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa