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This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of the student field workers the authors have mentored over the years, In the Field makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1. The Fieldwork Tradition 1
2. First Fieldwork: Irish Travellers 7
3. Politics and Fieldwork: Nomads in English Cities 31
4. Applying Anthropology in an Alaskan National Park 50
5. Studying Subsistence in Sitka 70
6. On the Move: Work and Mobility in Newfoundland 87
7. Native Anthropology: Studying the Culture of Baseball 105
8. Falling into Fieldwork in Japan 120
9. Photography and Film in Ireland and Alaska 142
10. Taking Students to the Field: Barbados 164
11. When the Field Is a City: Hobart, Tasmania 185
12. In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Students in Tanzania 201
13. Fieldwork from Campus 221
14. The Changing Nature of Fieldwork 238
Appendix Discussion Points 251
Notes 259
References 271

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 11 May 2018
      ISBN-13 9780520289628
      978-0520289628
      ISBN-10 0520289625
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      Social research and statistics Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of the student field workers the authors have mentored over the years, In the Field makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments vii
      1. The Fieldwork Tradition 1
      2. First Fieldwork: Irish Travellers 7
      3. Politics and Fieldwork: Nomads in English Cities 31
      4. Applying Anthropology in an Alaskan National Park 50
      5. Studying Subsistence in Sitka 70
      6. On the Move: Work and Mobility in Newfoundland 87
      7. Native Anthropology: Studying the Culture of Baseball 105
      8. Falling into Fieldwork in Japan 120
      9. Photography and Film in Ireland and Alaska 142
      10. Taking Students to the Field: Barbados 164
      11. When the Field Is a City: Hobart, Tasmania 185
      12. In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Students in Tanzania 201
      13. Fieldwork from Campus 221
      14. The Changing Nature of Fieldwork 238
      Appendix Discussion Points 251
      Notes 259
      References 271

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