Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 200 pages
• Published by: Waveland Press; 3 Sub edition June 1992
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0881336858
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0881336856
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 10.4 ounces

Product Description
Building on the success of previous editions, this latest edition continues to offer readers a very practical, down-to-earth approach to the methods and key issues involved in dong ethnographic research. Although not intended as a complete manual of field techniques, it does present a series of fourteen projects that represent some of the most common data collection techniques used by anthropologists. In carrying out the projects, readers learn something about how and when to apply such techniques, or variants of them, in the field situation. The authors' clear and useful guidelines are a welcome rite of passage to developing this field experience. Imaginable, practical, versatile and stimulating, this edition maintains the unique coverage of topics, illustrative approach, and succinctness that has made it a widely read book for nearly two decades. Most importantly, Field Projects in Anthropology, 3/E motivates readers to learn about other cultures and to develop new perspectives about their own. The projects are clearly written, short enough and varied enough to hold the reader's attention, and to the point. They are also versatile, allowing sufficient leeway to modify or amplify the method to suit individual research needs.

Publisher Description
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Angrosino, Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577664642); Angrosino, Exploring Oral History: A Window on the Past (ISBN 9781577665687); Angrosino, Projects in Ethnographic Research (ISBN 9781577663690); and McCurdy et al., The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577663645).

Reader Reviews
Having just finished a course on "Understanding Other Cultures" where this book was one of the required texts, and finding the book sadly lacking in many areas, I wanted to warn future purchasers. This book is out of date. Badly. It's basically pre-Internet in the tools you are asked to bring to bear in the projects used to understand other cultures. Granted, you can work around them by applying the principles behind the different methods, but that means you could rip out forty pages or so and not miss them. No demographics. No Google Maps. No GPS. No digital - anything. So if you are happy with your Atari game system, you will enjoy this book. On the other had, if you are toting a smartphone or using the internet at all, this will seem like card catalog remembrance days at the school library. What's a card catalog? Go ask someone over 50.