Being there : fieldwork in anthropology / edited by C.W. Watson.

Other author Watson, C. W.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, ©1999.
Descriptionvii, 169 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAnthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society. ^A682721
Contents The quality of being there / C. W. Watson -- Fictions of fieldwork: depicting the 'self' in ethnographic writing (Italy) / Cris Shore -- Location and relocation: home, 'the field' and anthropological ethics (Sylhet, Bangladesh) / Katy Gardner -- On ethnographic experience: formative and informative (Nias, Indonesia) / Andrew Beatty -- Learning to be friends: participant observation amongst English schoolchildren (the Midlands, England) / Allison James -- The end in the beginning: New Year at Rizong (the Himalayas) / Anna Grimshaw -- A diminishment: a death in the field (Kerinci, Indonesia) / C. W. Watson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98037448
ISBN074531497X (hbk)
ISBN0745314929 (pbk)