In the field : life and work in cultural anthropology / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch.
Material type: TextSeries: California scholarship onlinePublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:- text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520964211 (ebook) :
- 306.0723 23
- GN346 .G54 2019
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The authors draw on their 40 years as anthropologists and educators to illustrate through a narrative-style text and photographs what it is like to be an anthropologist and to 'do' anthropology - the problems encountered as well as the pleasures and rewards of living in other cultures and learning from other people. Through 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 their students, 'In the Field' makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.
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