| Description |
xxiv, 263 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Wadsworth modern anthropology library |
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Wadsworth modern anthropology library.
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| Contents |
10. The "Killing" of Neni Bai / Paul Winther -- 11. Turning Tears into Nothing / Miles Richardson -- 12. "Did You?" / Ward H. Goodenough -- 13. Strange Laughter / Bruce Grindal -- 14. Lessons from the Field: Gullibility and the Hazards of Money Lending / Cindy Hull -- 15. Arranging a Marriage in India / Serena Nanda -- 16. Lessons in Introductory Anthropology from the Bakairi Indians / Debra S. Picchi -- 17. Greasy Hands and Smelly Clothes: Fieldworker or Fisherman? / Phil DeVita -- 18. Of Softball Bats and Fishnets: A Summer in the Alaskan Bush / George Gmelch -- 19. On Jogging with Fascists and Strolling with Reds: Ethnoethnography and Political Polarization in an Andalusian Town / Michael Dean Murphy -- 20. Navigating Nigerian Bureaucracies; or, "Why Can't You Beg?" She Demanded / Elizabeth A. Eames -- 21. Munju / Trecie Melnick -- 22. Research in the Celtic Twilight: Spiritual Aid in the Field / John Messenger -- 23. The Matter of the Chickens / Anonymous -- 24. Celebrating Impermanence: Gypsies in a Spanish City / Miriam Lee Kaprow -- 25. Innocence in the Cooking Pot; or, Getting Stuck in the Mud in Hopiland / Armin Geertz -- 26. The Inseparability of Reason and Emotion in the Anthropological Perspective: Perceptions upon Leaving "The Field" / Kris Heggenhoughen -- 27. Some Consequences of a Fieldworker's Gender for Cross-Cultural Research / Susan Dwyer-Shick |
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Foreword to the Series / James A. Clifton -- Preface / Phil DeVita -- Introduction: Goy in the Promised Land; or, Murphy's Law and the Outcome of Fieldwork / James Armstrong -- pt. 1. Learning from Mistakes -- 1. Getting Below the Surface / Douglas Raybeck -- 2. Fieldwork That Failed / Linda L. Kent -- 3. Culture Shock in Paradise / Ellen Holmes -- 4. Don't Mess with Eagle Power! / James Clifton -- 5. A Very Bad Disease of the Arms / Michael Kearney -- 6. What Drives the Birds? Molting Ducks, Freshman Essays, and Cultural Logic / Phyllis Morrow -- pt. 2. Lessons from Fieldwork -- 7. Not a Real Fish: The Ethnographer as Inside Outsider / Roger M. Keesing -- 8. Centering: Lessons Learned from Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer -- 9. Of Teamwork, Faith, and Trust in West Sumatra / Carol J. Colfer |
| Analysis |
Anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Cook, Edwin A.
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Ethnologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
DeVita, Philip R., 1932-
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| LC no. |
91009896 |
| ISBN |
0534162665 |
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