An introduction to life in the country of Morocco through accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. The authors describe what it is like to live in a place where one is regarded as the outsider. They provide reflections on friendship, kinship, and be…
"Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in so…
Methodologies in semantic fieldwork
This volume brings together papers that discuss methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. Each author pairs explicit methodological proposals with concrete examples of their use in the field. The range of languages discussed spa…
Methodologies in semantic fieldwork
Methodologies in semantic fieldwork
Methodologies in semantic fieldwork
This volume brings together papers that discuss methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. Each author pairs explicit methodological proposals with concrete examples of their use in the field. The range of languages discussed spa…
Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press. "In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars…
Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press. "In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars…
Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press. "In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars…
"Although observation is an essential part of any fieldworker's toolkit, many ethnographers' observational skills tend to be their weakest. Christena Nippert-Eng's Watching Closely provides a practical, interactive guide for honing one's powers of observation. This book contains…
A practical, interactive guide for ethnographic fieldworkers to improve their powers of observation.
Linguistic fieldwork
"Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology--as the study of human beings, their culture, and society--has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrate…