| Description |
xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. "Oh no , they're not my shoes!": fieldwork in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica / Joan Cassell -- 2. Children in the Amazon / Christine Hugh-Jones -- 3. A tale of Simeon: reflections on raising a child while conducting fieldwork in rural South India / Mimi Nichter and Mark Nichter -- 4. "Daddy's little wedges": on being a child in France / Jonathan Wylie -- 5. Birthing in the bush: participant observation in Trinidad / Morton Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass -- 6. Three children in rural Jamaica / Melanie Dreher -- 7. Our Ulleri child / Patricia Hitchock -- 8. Children and parents in the field: reciprocal impacts / Renate Fernandez -- 9. A children's diary in the strict sense of the term: managing culture-shocked children in the field / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 10. "Drink from the Nile and you shall return": children and fieldwork in Egypt and the Sudan / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Richard Lobban |
| Summary |
"Although many families have accompanied anthropologists in the field, few researchers have discussed this aspect of scientific life. This collection of narratives by anthropologists who brought children with them into the field contains personal drama, practical information, and advice with an examination of how the presence of children can alter the relationship between those who study and thopse who are studied".--BOOKJACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Anthropologists -- Biography.
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Anthropologists -- Family relationships.
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Children of anthropologists.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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| Author |
Cassell, Joan.
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| LC no. |
86023160 |
| ISBN |
0877224773 (alk. paper) |
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