Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World

by Vered Amit (editor)

In an increasingly globalized world how is the nature of ethnographic fieldwork changing? In this book anthropologists provide a thorough and critical appraisal of what fieldwork is, and should be. The contributors challenge: the percieved necessity for the total immersion of the anthropologist in the field the separation of professional and personal areas of activity the existence of 'the field' as an entity separate from everyday life. Fresh perspectives on these and other aspects of contemporary fieldwork are provided by personal accounts of anthropologists in the field in Canada, The Cayman Islands, Britain, Switzerland and Spain. Professor Nigel Rapport University of St Andrews, Scotland; Professor Noel Dyck Simon Fraser University, Canada; Dr. Caroline Knowles University of Southampton, UK; Dr.

Genres: Anthropology

Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 1999

Reviews

[Liv · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the essays are a little repetitive but five stars specifically to Caroline Knowles' essay it shall be very useful for my work on autotheory <3