Working in the Field
Anthropological Experiences across the World
Published on 20. June 2014
Book
Hardback
XII, 95 pages
978-1-137-43097-7 (ISBN)
Description
How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Spanning Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to unexpected comparisons and discoveries of similarities in human cross-cultural patterns of behavior.
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Edition
2014 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XII, 95 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-43097-7 (9781137430977)
DOI
10.1057/9781137428967
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Author Pamela J. Stewart: Pamela J. Stewart is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Content
Preface: Working in Places, Moving through Spaces 1. Prologue 2. Papua New Guinea 2. Taiwan 4. Memory Conclusions