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The Shadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research.

• Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter
  
• Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical, epistemological, and political) faced by...

Winner of the Society for Medical Anthropology's 2009 New Millennium Award

Imagine yourself in advanced age, forced to depend on others for all your basic needs. What would you want to retain of your personal life?

This question is at the heart of a set of case studies that examine the lives of nursing home residents who were diagnosed with senile dementia. Based on two years of intensive comparative ethnographic study in a nursing home in a Northeastern American city, The Person in Dementia dramatically contrasts the outcomes of two approaches to dementia care...

The Shadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research.

• Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter
  
• Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical, epistemological, and political) faced by...