In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology
George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Abstract
The authors draw on their 40 years as anthropologists and educators to illustrate through a narrative-style text and photographs what it is like to be an anthropologist and to “do” anthropology—the problems encountered as well as the pleasures and rewards of living in other cultures and learning from other people. Through accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of their students, In the Field ma ... More
Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Fieldwork, Research Methods, Cross-cultural Encounters
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520289611 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520289611.001.0001 |
