Rosalie H Wax

Biographic Data

ID	84591
NAME	Rosalie H Wax
GIVEN NAMES	Rosalie H
FAMILY NAME	Wax
SIGNATURE	WAX R H
AFFILIATIONS	Washington University in St. Louis
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	35
TOTAL CITATIONS	205
AUTHOR COUNT	35
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	1985
H-INDEX	6

Doing fieldwork: Warnings and Advice
Rosalie H WaxBOOKDoing fieldwork1985Cited by: 83
Fieldwork and the Research Process1
Open AccessMurray L Wax, Rosalie H WaxARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly1980References: 6
In the course of fieldwork, investigators gain cultural insight and identify social processes. In this process they must interact with themselves and gain knowledge of themselves and their native culture. The task of writing is facilitated when it is viewed as a process which begins with the composition of the research proposal and is then continued via dialogue with the fieldnotes, providing the investigator has a proper vision of the audience f…
Gender and Age in Fieldwork and Fieldwork Education: No Good Thing Is Done by Any Man Alone
Rosalie H WaxARTICLESocial Problems1979Cited by: 52References: 4
With examples chosen principally from her own fieldwork, the author shows how age and gender affect the conduct of field research, facilitating the study of some groups and inhibiting (or prohibiting) the study of others. Because much instruction about fieldwork ignores age and gender, it leaves the novice ill prepared to cope with the vicissitudes of actual research. Further, it has led to inaccurate portraits of societies marked by sexual segre…
How People Stop Smoking: An Exploratory Study
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLESocial Thought and Research1978
What happens as people successfully attempt to quit smoking is analyzed with the aid of data from a pilot survey of thirty ex-smokers supplemented by other types of materials. It becomes apparent that stopping smoking was, for most of the respondents, a private and individual process involving conscious self-direction and self-manipulation. From this process the individual emerged as a new person who (l)has completely lost interest in smoking or …
Religion Among American Indians
Open AccessMurray L Wax, Rosalie H WaxARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1978Cited by: 3
The traditional worldview of North American Indians is outlined as a basis for explicating the central tribal ceremonials and for comprehending the tribal response to prolonged missionization from Christian denominations. The missionaries operated in a context of authoritarian superiority, and most conceived of themselves as bearing civilization, rather than a plain scriptural message; hence, there was little concern to modify Euro-Christianity t…
Voyage to Greenland: A Personal Initiation into Anthropology. FREDERICA DE Laguna
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1978
Urban Renegades: The Cultural Strategy of American Indians. Jeanne Guillemin Indian and White: Self-Image and Interaction in a Canadian Plains Community. Niels Winther Braroe Success and Failure: Indi…
Murray Wax, Murray L Wax et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1976
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Crossing Cultural Boundaries: The Anthropological Experience. Solon T. Kimball and James T. Watson , eds
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1976
Doing Fieldwork-Warnings and Advice
Open AccessOlivia Harris, Rosalie H WaxARTICLERAIN1976
Books: Social intimacies
Open AccessHerbert Blumer, Ludwig Geismar et al.ARTICLESociety1975
Fieldwork as education
Open AccessRosalie H Wax, Murray L WaxARTICLESocial Thought and Research1974References: 1
This paper emphasizes the experience of fieldwork as an integral part of understanding a culture alien to one's own, and of developing a sense of personal self-reliance which cannot be achieved solely in the classroom. A diverse sample of fieldworkers' views corroborate the authors' own beliefs concerning the inherent heuristic qualities of fieldwork
Some Neglected Problems of Sociological Research
Martin Bulmer, Derek L Phillips et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1974
Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice
Loretta Fowler, Rosalie H WaxARTICLEInternational Migration Review1973
The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
Dennison Nash, Ronald Wintrob et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1972Cited by: 22References: 10
In recent years there has been a steady increase in attention paid by anthropologists to themselves and their field relationships as significant factors in the selection of research problems, the collection of data, and the interpretation of it. The psychological stresses and gratifications of the fieldworker are being recognized as important subjects for professional consideration. In this paper, the historical process of the emergence of self-c…
Ethnology: The Modern Sioux: Social System and Reservation Culture. Ethel Nurge
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1972
Land Under the Pole Star: A Voyage to the Norse Settlements of Greenland and the Saga of the People that Vanished: Helge INGSTAD. The Vinland Sagas, the Norse Discovery of America: Graenlendiga Saga a…
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1967
The Human Perspective in Sociology: The Methodology of Participant Observation. Severyn T. Bruyn
Rosalie H WaxARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1967
Some Implications of the Theory of the Particularity, or "Atomism," of Northern Algonkians [and Comments and Reply]
Harold Hickerson, J P Averkieva et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1967Cited by: 8
The article reviews the background of theories held on the organization of northern Algonkians, especially those relating to the persistence of "atomism" in the social organization and personality structure. It presents ethnohistorical and other evidence that protohistoric Algonkians lived in far more cohesive communities than is generally thought. The atomism theory is antithetical to theories of Morgan and the Marxists, especially to those conc…
The warrior dropouts
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLETrans-action1967Cited by: 6
Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa. John Middleton , E. H. Winter
Murray Wax, Murray L Wax et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1965
The Eta as Outcastes and Scapegoats Among Japanese Americans
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLESocial Thought and Research1965
For many hundreds of years the lowest position in Japanese social structure has been occupied by the eta, a hereditary outcaste group which performed necessary but despised work. The presence, in the United States, of a con siderable number of persons of eta descent was revealed rather dramatically when the American Government obliged the evacuated Japanese Americans to answer a questionnaire designed to determine whether or not they were loyal t…
Horizons of Anthropology.Sol Tax
Murray Wax, Murray L Wax et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1965
On the Definition of 'Magic
Martin Bu, MARTIN J BUSS et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1965
General and Ethnology: In the Beginnings: Early Man and His Gods. H. R. H ays
Open AccessMurray Wax, Murray L Wax et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1964
Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium
Rosalie H Wax, K O L BurridgeARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1963

Doing fieldwork: Warnings and Advice
Rosalie H WaxBOOKDoing fieldwork1985Cited by: 83
Gender and Age in Fieldwork and Fieldwork Education: No Good Thing Is Done by Any Man Alone
Rosalie H WaxARTICLESocial Problems1979Cited by: 52References: 4
With examples chosen principally from her own fieldwork, the author shows how age and gender affect the conduct of field research, facilitating the study of some groups and inhibiting (or prohibiting) the study of others. Because much instruction about fieldwork ignores age and gender, it leaves the novice ill prepared to cope with the vicissitudes of actual research. Further, it has led to inaccurate portraits of societies marked by sexual segre…
The Notion of Magic
Murray Wax, Murray L Wax et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1963Cited by: 26
Social science contains two main traditions as to the nature of magic: With Tylor and Frazer, magic is superstition-an evolutionarily early stage of science, inadequate and misleading. With Durkheim, magic is immoral and anti-social: where religion solidifies the group, magic is individualistic. Both traditions thus proceed, not by an analysis of the lives of peoples where magic plays a significant role, but rather by invidious comparison with a …
The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
Dennison Nash, Ronald Wintrob et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1972Cited by: 22References: 10
In recent years there has been a steady increase in attention paid by anthropologists to themselves and their field relationships as significant factors in the selection of research problems, the collection of data, and the interpretation of it. The psychological stresses and gratifications of the fieldworker are being recognized as important subjects for professional consideration. In this paper, the historical process of the emergence of self-c…
Some Implications of the Theory of the Particularity, or "Atomism," of Northern Algonkians [and Comments and Reply]
Harold Hickerson, J P Averkieva et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1967Cited by: 8
The article reviews the background of theories held on the organization of northern Algonkians, especially those relating to the persistence of "atomism" in the social organization and personality structure. It presents ethnohistorical and other evidence that protohistoric Algonkians lived in far more cohesive communities than is generally thought. The atomism theory is antithetical to theories of Morgan and the Marxists, especially to those conc…
The warrior dropouts
Open AccessRosalie H WaxARTICLETrans-action1967Cited by: 6
The Magical World View
Rosalie H Wax, Rosalie Wax et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1962Cited by: 4
Religion Among American Indians
Open AccessMurray L Wax, Rosalie H WaxARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1978Cited by: 3
The traditional worldview of North American Indians is outlined as a basis for explicating the central tribal ceremonials and for comprehending the tribal response to prolonged missionization from Christian denominations. The missionaries operated in a context of authoritarian superiority, and most conceived of themselves as bearing civilization, rather than a plain scriptural message; hence, there was little concern to modify Euro-Christianity t…
The Vikings and the Rise of Capitalism
Rosalie H Wax, Rosalie Wax et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1955Cited by: 1
Max Weber asserted that the emancipating and rationalizing effect of Christianity made possible the rise of rational, burgeois capitalism in Europe. He implied that pre-Christian Europe was folkish and irrational. But the Viking literature reveals a remarkably individualistic and rational people, spiritually kin to Benjamin Franklin. Further investigation should reveal the respective influences in the rise of capitalism of indigenous, northern Eu…