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245 00 a| Stumbling toward truth :b| anthropologists at work /c| [edited by] Philip R. DeVita.;

300 a| xviii, 272 pages :b| maps ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

505 0 a| An anthropologist as travel writer / Robert Tonkinson -- Getting below the surface / Douglas Raybeck -- Of softball bats and fishnets : a summer in the Alaskan bush / George Gmelch -- The first Rotumans / Alan Howard -- Navigating Nigerian bureaucracies : or "Why can't you beg?" she demanded / Elizabeth A. Eames -- Two tales from the Trukese taproom / Mac Marshall -- Reflections of a shy ethnographer : foot-in-the-mouth is not fatal / Juliana Flinn -- Greasy hands and smelly clothes : fieldworker or fisherman / Philip DeVita -- Of teamwork, faith, and trust in western Sumatra / Carol J. Colfer -- Some consequences of a fieldworker's gender for cross-cultural research / Susan Dwyer-Shick -- Fieldwork that failed / Linda L. Kent -- Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing -- Ethnocentrism and the Abelam / Richard Scaglion -- What drives the birds? molting ducks, freshman essays, and cultural logic / Phyllis Morrow -- What did the earthquake mean? / Alice Pomponio -- Centering : lessons learned from Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer -- Don't mess with eagle power! / James Clifton -- A very bad disease of the arms / Michael Kearney -- Too many bananas, not enough pineapples, and no watermelons at all / David Counts -- Lessons in introductory anthropology from the Bakairi Indians / Debra S. Picchi -- Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda -- Pigs of the forest and other unwritten papers / Terence E. Hays -- Lesson from the field : gullibility and the hazards of money lending / Cindy Hull -- To die on Ambae : on the possibility of doing fieldwork forever / William L. Rodman and Margaret C. Rodman -- A letter from the field / Marty Zelenietz -- Turning tears into nothing / Miles Richardson -- Did you? / Ward H. Goodenough -- Munju / Trecie Melnick -- The inseparability of reason and emotion in the anthropological perspective : perceptions upon leaving the field / Kris Heggenbougen.;

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Stumbling toward truth : anthropologists at work / [edited by] Philip R. DeVita.

Other author	DeVita, Philip R., 1932-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., ©2000.
Description	xviii, 272 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Subjects	Ethnology--Fieldwork. Ethnologists--Biography.

Contents	An anthropologist as travel writer / Robert Tonkinson -- Getting below the surface / Douglas Raybeck -- Of softball bats and fishnets : a summer in the Alaskan bush / George Gmelch -- The first Rotumans / Alan Howard -- Navigating Nigerian bureaucracies : or "Why can't you beg?" she demanded / Elizabeth A. Eames -- Two tales from the Trukese taproom / Mac Marshall -- Reflections of a shy ethnographer : foot-in-the-mouth is not fatal / Juliana Flinn -- Greasy hands and smelly clothes : fieldworker or fisherman / Philip DeVita -- Of teamwork, faith, and trust in western Sumatra / Carol J. Colfer -- Some consequences of a fieldworker's gender for cross-cultural research / Susan Dwyer-Shick -- Fieldwork that failed / Linda L. Kent -- Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing -- Ethnocentrism and the Abelam / Richard Scaglion -- What drives the birds? molting ducks, freshman essays, and cultural logic / Phyllis Morrow -- What did the earthquake mean? / Alice Pomponio -- Centering : lessons learned from Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer -- Don't mess with eagle power! / James Clifton -- A very bad disease of the arms / Michael Kearney -- Too many bananas, not enough pineapples, and no watermelons at all / David Counts -- Lessons in introductory anthropology from the Bakairi Indians / Debra S. Picchi -- Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda -- Pigs of the forest and other unwritten papers / Terence E. Hays -- Lesson from the field : gullibility and the hazards of money lending / Cindy Hull -- To die on Ambae : on the possibility of doing fieldwork forever / William L. Rodman and Margaret C. Rodman -- A letter from the field / Marty Zelenietz -- Turning tears into nothing / Miles Richardson -- Did you? / Ward H. Goodenough -- Munju / Trecie Melnick -- The inseparability of reason and emotion in the anthropological perspective : perceptions upon leaving the field / Kris Heggenbougen.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN	1577661257 (pbk.)

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