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The World Observed
Reflections on the Fieldwork Process
Edited by Bruce Jackson and Edward D. Ives
Paper978-0-252-06533-0
$20.00
| Pub Date: | 1996 |
| Pages: | 248 pages |
"Reading this book will teach us a lot about fieldwork, but it will teach us more about what it means to be human." -- William A. Wilson, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University
"This book will be of value to folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and anyone involved in field research." -- Patrick B. Mullen, former editor, Publications of the American Folklore Society
The books that give us insight into human motives and experience often are based on fieldwork: people spending time with others where those others live and work. In The World Observed sixteen researchers relate how their fieldwork experiences have been transmuted into understanding. The settings range from a women's prison in Indiana to a village in Egypt, from a streetcorner in Palermo to a gypsy funeral in New York. The authors--anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, historians--relate their struggles to find meaning in the chaos of data and the ethical problems they had to confront and resolve. Their fascinating stories offer fresh insight into how we know what we know.
A volume in the series Folklore and Society, edited by Roger D. Abrahams, Bruce Jackson, and Marta Weigle
Subjects:
Anthropology / Folklore / Sociology
