Deger, Jennifer (2006) Book Review: "Anthropologists in the Field: cases in participant observation" edited by L. Hume and J. Mulcock. New York, Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-231-13005-8. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 17 (3). pp. 364-366.

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Abstract

[Extract] Twenty years after the 'writing culture' moment with its emphasis on the 'partial' and 'positioned' nature of ethnographic knowledge, anthropologists have yet to satisfactorily come to terms with the sometimes contradictory and conflicting identifications demanded by a research methodology based on 'participant-observation'. This volume offers a valuable contribution to on-going discussions about the nature of fieldwork, the value of reflexivity and the kinds of understanding that ethnography enables. What makes this book particularly intersting is that the case studies focus explicitly on things that usually get written out of the final account, namely the ways doing fieldwork can actually undo the researcher, along with their methodological, theoretical, epistemological and ethical certainties.

Item ID:	34031
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	1757-6547
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2017 01:07
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology @ 100%
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