{"product_id":"the-secret-lives-of-anthropologists-9781138501867","title":"The Secret Lives of Anthropologists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social, political, economic, health, and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork. It also sheds important light on aspects often considered secret or taboo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom anthropologists just starting out to those with over forty years in the field, these researchers offer the benefit of their experience conducting research in diverse cultures around the world. The contributions combine engaging personal narrative with consideration of theory and methods. The volume emphasizes how being adaptable, and aware, of the many risks and rewards of ethnographic research can help foster success in quantitative and qualitative data collection. This is a valuable resource for students of anthropological methods and those about to embark on fieldwork for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cem\u003eBonnie L. Hewlett \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Paths into the Field \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Learning Fields \u003cem\u003eVishvajit Pandya \u003c\/em\u003e2. Stumbling Around the Sacred: Some Personal Observations \u003cem\u003eBenjamin Grant Purzycki \u003c\/em\u003e3. From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: Searching for a Field Site as an Evolutionary Anthropologist \u003cem\u003eNicole Hess \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Gendered Relations and Other Challenges in the Field \u003c\/strong\u003e4. Doing Ethnomusicological Research as a White Woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic \u003cem\u003eSusanne Fürniss \u003c\/em\u003e5. A Boss, a Mother, a Red Antelope, and All the Things in Between \u003cem\u003eSylvie Le Bomin \u003c\/em\u003e6.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eCulturally Appropriate Solutions to Fieldwork Challenges Among the Mbendjele BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin \u003cem\u003eDaša Bombjaková \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: The Observer and the Observed: The Metamorphosis of Research, Methods, and the Researcher 7\u003c\/strong\u003e. My Life in the School of Hard Knocks: How an Aspiring Anthropologist Became a White Cameroonian \u003cem\u003eRobert Moïse \u003c\/em\u003e8. \u003ci\u003eSpā߀min,\u003c\/i\u003e Ethnographers and Mixed Methods \u003cem\u003eRobert Quinlan \u003c\/em\u003e9. Mothering in the Field: Participant Observation on Cultural Transmission \u003cem\u003eVictoria Reyes-García \u003c\/em\u003e10. The Quiet Joy of Fieldworkers in the Kalahari \u003cem\u003eAkira Takada \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Dangerous Fields \u003c\/strong\u003e11. The Origins of \u003cem\u003eSurviving Fieldwork - Nancy Howell \u003c\/em\u003e12. When All Hell Breaks Loose: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork Amid Gunplay, Catastrophe, and Mayhem \u003cem\u003eJ. Christopher Kovats-Bernat \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 5: Ethics, Advocacy, and Other Everyday Moral Dilemmas of Research \u003c\/strong\u003e13. Surviving Agta Fieldwork \u003cem\u003eThomas N. Headland with Janet D. Headland \u003c\/em\u003e14. Do You Consent to Participate in the Research Study? \u003cem\u003ePaul Verdu \u003c\/em\u003e15. Who Owns the Poop? And Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights \u003cem\u003eAlyssa Crittenden \u003c\/em\u003e16. But What if the \"Field\" is a Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory? How it Happened, What it’s Like. The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly \u003cem\u003eJames J. McKenna \u003c\/em\u003eAppendix: Regional Packing List and Other Favorite Items in the Field\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577825825111,"sku":"9781138501867","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138501867.jpg?v=1746096829","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-lives-of-anthropologists-9781138501867","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}