Doing Field Projects: Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research

ISBN-13: 9781119734611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

John Forrest

Spis treści

Preface (Including a Word to Instructors) viForeword (Including a Word to Student Readers) ix1 Introduction 12 Getting Started 223 Ethics of Fieldwork 274 Research Design 335 Self-Study 396 Proxemics 527 Mapping 598 Recorded Interviews 779 Participant Observation 9410 Engaged Anthropology 10011 Process Documentation 11112 Visual Anthropology 11713 Sensory Observation 12914 Performance 13815 Life Histories (and Oral History) 14716 Charting Kinship 15817 Digital Ethnography (1) Social Media 16718 Digital Ethnography (2) Online Gaming 18219 Digital Ethnography (3) Human-Computer Interaction 18620 Digital Ethnography (4) Online Meetings/Classes 19221 Winding Down and Gearing Up 197References Cited 205Index 212

O autorze

JOHN FORREST is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York, USA. His anthropological research interests include dance, music, aesthetics, ritual, and Biblical studies. He has conducted extensive fieldwork projects in the United States (North Carolina and New Mexico), Argentina, and England. He currently resides in Cambodia, where he teaches and conducts field research.KATIE NELSON is Instructor of Anthropology and Sociology at Inver Hills Community College, USA. Her research interests include teaching and learning in anthropology, and migration, identity, belonging, and citizenship in human history and in the contemporary United States, Mexico, and Morocco.