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Bibliography of
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Last updated: 09 Jul 2001

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Bibliography of fieldwork, research methods and ethnography in sociocultural anthropology

|| Introduction to fieldwork || Research methods || Ethics and fieldwork || Sex, gender and fieldwork || Writing ethnography || History and theory of anthropological research || Personal accounts of anthropological fieldwork ||


Personal accounts of anthropological fieldwork

ANDERSON, B. 1990. First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist.
Prospect Heights: Waveland Press.

BARLEY, Nigel. 1983. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut. London:
British Museum Publication.

BEHAR, Ruth. 1996. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart.
Boston: Beacon.

BERREMAN, G. 1972. Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management. In
Gerald Berreman (ed.), Hindus of the Himalayas: Ethnography and Change.
Berkeley: University of California Press.

BETEILLE, Andr( and T. MADAN (eds.) 1975. Encounter and Experience: Personal
Accounts of Fieldwork. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

BOWEN, Elenore S. 1954. Return to Laughter. London: Gollancz.

BRIGGS, Jean L. 1974. Kapluna Daughter. In Spradley, James P. and David W.
McCurdy (eds.), Conformity and Conflict. Boston: Little Brown, pp. 42-60.

BRIGGS, Jean. 1970. Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.

CASAGRANDE, Joseph. 1960. In the Company of Men: Twenty Portraits by
Anthropologists. New York: Harper & Row.

CHAGNON, Napoleon. 1974. Studying the Yanomamo. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston.

CLARKE, Michael. 1975. Survival in the Field: Implications of Personal
Experience in Field Work. Theory and Society 2:95-123.

COHEN, A. 1992. Post-fieldwork Fieldwork. Journal of Anthropological Research
48:339-54.

CRAPANZANO, Vincent. 1980. Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.

DE VITA, Philip R. (ed.) 1990. The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales From the
Pacific. Belmont: Wadsworth.

DE VITA, Philip R. (ed.) 1992. The Naked Anthropologist: Tales From Around the
World. Belmont: Wadsworth.

DUMONT, Jean-Paul. 1978. The Headman and I: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the
fieldworking Experience. Austin: University of Texas Press.

DWYER, Kevin. 1982. Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press.

FERNEA, Elizabeth W. 1969. Guests of the Sheik. New York: Doubleday.

FORTES, Meyer. 1975. Strangers. In Fortes, Meyer and Patterson, S. (eds.),
Studies in African Social Anthropology. London: Academic Press.

FORTIER, A-M. 1996. Troubles in the Field: The Use of Personal Experiences as
Sources of Knowledge. Critiques of Anthropology 16:303-23.

FREILICH, Morris (ed.). 1970. Marginal Natives at Work: Anthropologists in the
Field. Cambridge: Schenkman.

GEERTZ, Clifford. 1995. After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One
Anthropologist. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

GEORGES, R. and M. JONES. 1980. People Studying People: The Human Element in
Fieldwork. Berkeley: University of California Press.

HICKS, David. 1976. Tetum Ghosts and Kin: Fieldwork in an Indonesian Community.
Palo Alto: Mayfield.

HONIGMANN, J. 1976. The Personal Approach in Cultural Anthropological Research.
Current Anthropology 17:243-61.

JONGMANS, D.G. and P.C.W. GUTKIND (eds.) 1967. Anthropologists in the Field.
Assen: Van Gorcum.

KAPLAN, F. 1994. Some thoughts on Doing Fieldwork at the Royal Court of Benin,
Nigeria, and Other Things: A Fulbright Experience. Studies in Third World
Societies 53:17-31.

KIMBALL, Solon and James B. WATSON. (eds.). 1972. Crossing Cultural Boundaries:
The Anthropological Experience. San Francisco: Chandler.

KONDO, D. 1986. Dissolution and Reconstitution of Self: Implications for
Anthropological Epistemology. Cultural Anthropology 1:74-88.

KUMAR, Nita. 1992. Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of
Banaras. Berkeley: University of California Press.

LAREAU, A. and J. SHULTZ (eds.) 1996. Journey Through Ethnography: Realistic
Accounts of Fieldwork. Boulder: Westview Press.

LAWLESS, R., V. SUTLIVE, and M.D. SAMORA (eds.) 1983. Fieldwork: The Human
Experience. New York: Gordon & Breach Publishers.

L(VI-STRAUSS, Claude 1973. Tristes Tropiques. New York: Atheneum.

LOIZOS, P. (ed.) 1977. Anthropological Research in British Colonies: Some
Personal Accounts. Anthropological Forum 4(2).

MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw. 1967. A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul.

MAYBURY-LEWIS, David. 1965. The Savage and the Innocent. Boston: Beacon Press.

MEAD, Margaret. 1977. Letters from the Field 1925-75. New York: Harper & Row.

NASH, Dennison. 1963. The Ethnologist as a Stranger: An Essay in the Sociology
of Knowledge. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 19: 149-167.

NASH, Dennison and R. WINTROB. 1972. The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in
Ethnography. Current Anthropology 13:567-72.

OKELY, Judith and Helen CALLAWAY (eds.) 1992. Anthropology and Autobiography.
London: Routledge.

PERRY, John (ed.) 1989. Doing Fieldwork: Eight Personal Accounts of Social
Research. Geelong: Deakin University Press.

POWDERMAKER, Hortense. 1966. Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist.
New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

RABINOW, Paul. 1977. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Berkeley: University
of California Press.

READ, Kenneth. 1965. The High Valley. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

READ, Kenneth 1986. Return to the High Valley. Berkeley: University of
California Press.

SHAFFIR, William B. and Robert A. STEBBINS (eds.) 1991. Experiencing Fieldwork:
An Inside View of Qualitative Research. Newbury Park: Sage.

SHOSTAK, Marjorie. 1981. Nisa: the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Cambridge
MA: Harvard University Press.

SMITH, C. and W. KORNBLUM (eds.) 1989. In the Field: Readings on the Field
Research Experience. New York: Praeger.

SPINDLER, George D. (ed.) 1970. Being an Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Eleven
Cultures. New York: Holt.

TREMBLAY, M. 1957. The Key Informant Technique: A Non-Ethnographical
Application. American Anthropologist 59:688-701.

VIDICH, A. and G. SHAPIRO. 1955. A Comparison of Participant Observation and
Survey Data. American Sociological Review 20:28-33.

WARD, M. 1989. Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical
Island. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press.

WAX, Rosalie H. 1971. Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.

WHYTE, William Foote. 1997. Creative Problem Solving in the Field: Reflections
on a Career. Oxford: AltaMira Press.

WORMSLEY, W. 1993. The White Man Will Eat You! An Anthropologist Among the
Imbonggu of New Guinea. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.

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