Description
Book SynopsisA must-read guide to conducting qualitative field research in the social sciences
Doing Field Projects: Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research delivers a thorough and insightful introduction to qualitative field methods in the social sciences. Ideal for undergraduate students just starting out in fields like anthropology, sociology, and related subjects, the book offers readers twenty instructive projects. Each project is well-suitedas a standalone exercise, or several may be combined as a series of field work assignments.
From interview techniques to participant observation, kinship analysis, spatial mapping, photo and video documentation, and auto-ethnography, Doing Field Projects covers each critical area of qualitative fieldwork students are likely to encounter. Every project also contains discussions of how to execute the research, avoid common problems and mistakes, and present the uncovered data in several different for
Table of Contents
Preface (Including a Word to Instructors) vi
Foreword (Including a Word to Student Readers) ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Getting Started 22
3 Ethics of Fieldwork 27
4 Research Design 33
5 Self-Study 39
6 Proxemics 52
7 Mapping 59
8 Recorded Interviews 77
9 Participant Observation 94
10 Engaged Anthropology 100
11 Process Documentation 111
12 Visual Anthropology 117
13 Sensory Observation 129
14 Performance 138
15 Life Histories (and Oral History) 147
16 Charting Kinship 158
17 Digital Ethnography (1) Social Media 167
18 Digital Ethnography (2) Online Gaming 182
19 Digital Ethnography (3) Human–Computer Interaction 186
20 Digital Ethnography (4) Online Meetings/Classes 192
21 Winding Down and Gearing Up 197
References Cited 205
Index 212
