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Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation

Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock

Paper, 296 pages, 7 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-13005-9
$31.50 / £18.50

January, 2005
Cloth, 296 pages, 7 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-13004-2
$76.50 / £45.00

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Positioned Engagement

Awkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations, by Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock

Ethical Engagements

Awkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico, by Patty Kelly

Multi-sited Engagements

Disclosure and Interaction in a Monastery, by Michael V. Angrosino

Going Beyond "The West" and "The Rest": Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand, by Ida Fadzillah

Multiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture, by Russell Shuttleworth

He’s Not a Spy, He’s One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting, by Martin Forsey

Dissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle, by Jonathan Telfer

Doing Ethnography in 'One’s Own Ethnic Community’: The Experience of an Awkward Insider, by Val Colic-Peisker

"And I Can’t feel at Home in this World Anymore": Fieldwork in Two Settings, by Jim Birckhead

"Yo, bitch ..." and Other Challenges: Bringing High-risk Ethnography into the Discourse, by Sylvie C. Tourigny

Reflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users, by Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando Hundt

Closed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography, by John M. Coggeshall

Living in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi, by Gary Robinson

Performing and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions, by Graham Harvey

Not Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease, by Stewart Muir

Multi-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork, by Sawa Kurotani

Multi-sited Methodologies: "Homework" between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa

About the Author

Lynne Hume is associate professor in The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Jane Mulcock is a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology and sociology at the University of Western Australia.

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