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The Art of Fieldwork

The Art of Fieldwork

by Harry F. Wolcott University of Oregon; (d. 2012) (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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One of anthropology's premier writers on fieldwork methodology looks at the essential elements that constitute the art of his discipline. In The Art of Fieldwork, Wolcott compares the fieldworker to the artist, while recognizing the inherent differences between the labors of each.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: 1st PB Edition
 Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 1995
ISBN 10: 0761991018
ISBN 13: 9780761991014

Media Reviews
Far more than a how-to-do-it handbook, The Art of Fieldwork offers a rich, engaging discourse drawing from a lifetime of personal experiences. -- Donald A. Ritchie, associate historian, U.S. Senate Historical Office; author of Doing Oral History * Routledge Studies In Memory and Narrative *
This is a fine introduction to the perils and pleasures of fieldwork. Broad, eclectic, and open, it deals with questions of both epistemology and technique straightforwardly and without pretension. -- Leslie Salzinger * American Journal of Sociology *
Author Bio
Harry F. Wolcott (1929-2012) was professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and a leading author in anthropology and research methods. Wolcott's major works include anthropological studies of American education: Teachers Versus Technocrats and The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography. He also wrote extensively on fieldwork and writing: Transforming Qualitative Data; The Art of Fieldwork; Ethnography: A Way of Seeing; and Writing Up Qualitative Data and is the author of the more recent Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath: Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork (all published by AltaMira Press).