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Waveland Press, Inc.
Language
English
Pages
272

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Subjects
Field work, Ethnology, Biography, Ethnologists, Fieldwork

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Cover of: Stumbling toward truth
Stumbling toward truth: anthropologists at work
2000, Waveland Press, Inc.
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Table of 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 anthrpological perspective : perceptions upon leaving the field / Kris Heggenbougen.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Prospect Heights, IL
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/007/23
Library of Congress
GN346 .S88 2000, GN346.S88 2000

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Pagination
xviii, 272 p. :
Number of pages
272

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OL6900839M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1577661257
LCCN
00711250
OCLC/WorldCat
44602504
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458496

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