Anthropologists at Home in North America
Methods and Issues in the Study of One's Own Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2572010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Spindler |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 1983-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Anthropologists at home in North America: Methods and Issues in the Study of One's Own Society, Donald A Messerschmidt, 1981 |
| Venue | Man (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1496 • E-ISSN: 2397-2548 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2801792 |
| OpenAlex | W563309029 |
| Language | EN |
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. On anthropology 'at home' Donald A. Messerschmidt 2. Insider research: an ethnography of a debate John L. Aguilar Part II. Urban Studies: 3. Unseen community: the natural history of a research project Paul Bohannan 4. Common sense and science: urban core black observations John L. Gwaltney 5. Observer participation and consulting: research in urban food cooperatives Richard Zimmer 6. The masking of social reality: ethnographic fieldwork in the bureaucracy David Serber Part III. Rural Studies: 7. Longitudinal research in rural North America: the Saskatchewan Cultural Ecology Research Program, 1960-1973 John W. Bennett and Seena Kohl 8. Social networks and community administration: a comparative study of two mining towns Susan Brandt Graham 9. The anthropologist as key informant: inside a rural Oregon town Lawrence Hennigh 10. Neighboring: discovering support systems among Norwegian-American women Agnes M. Aamodt Part IV. Health Systems: 11. Applied ethnoscience in rural America: New Age health and healing Craig Molgaard and Elizabeth Byerly 12. Interactive research in a feminist setting: The Vancouver Women's Health Collective Linda Light and Nancy Kleiber Part V. Education Systems: 13. Constraints in government research: the anthropologist in a rural school district Donald A. Messerschmidt 14. Many roles, many faces: researching school-community relations in a heterogeneous American urban community R. Timothy Sieber Part VI. Contract Anthropology: 15. Anthropology under contract: two examples from Alaska Kerry D. Feldman 16. Talking to an agency: communicating the research findings Ruth M. Houghton Part VII. Reflections on Anthropology at Home: 17. Home and away: personal contrasts in ethnographic style Harry F. Wolcott Contributors Notes Bibliography Index
Geography · Political science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
A debate about our canon
A 'balikbayan' in the field
Negotiating the indistinct
Toward a transnational feminist methodology of encounter
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings
Presidential Address Talking Across the Differences in Collaborative Fieldwork
Ethnography
Shared Brokering
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
We Are All Insider‐Outsiders
The vulnerable insider
The green ceiling for NRM careers in public service
Media Ethnography in Diasporic Communities
Dilemmas of Fieldwork in Policy Research
Ethnographic Research in Medical Sociology
Educating for Competence in Community and Culture
Of Fieldwork, Folklore, and Festival
Anthropology at Home in Australia
The Development of Ethnographic Drama to Support Healthcare Professionals
Through a different lens
Bias as a Research Strategy in Participant Observation
Caring for self and others
Carnal Pleasures and Grotesque Bodies
Positioning oneself and being positioned in the 'community'
The Student-Initiated Retention Project
The repatriation of anthropology
Anthropology at home via anthropology abroad
Up in smoke or down with worms? older adult environmentalist’s discourse on disposal, dispersal, and (green) burial
Bottomless cup, plug-in drug
"Anthropologists Working "at Home
Is native anthropology really possible? (Respond to this article at https
Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Research with Non-White Ethnic Elders
Giving Back
Reframing Hmong Religion
Participatory Action Research with High-risk Groups
Can insider be outsider? Doing an ethnographic research in a familiar setting
Engaging ethnography in tourist research
Forever fields
When Interviewing “Family”
Conceptualizing from the Inside
Producing liminal space
A tale of two “halfs”
Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation
Doth the lady protest too much? Pre-service teachers and the experience of dissonance as a catalyst for development
Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images
Building world class universities in China
Presidential Address*. Talking Across the Differences in Collaborative Fieldwork
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture
Ethnographic toolkit
Intersections of Literature and Ethnography in the United States
Prolínání literatury a etnografie ve Spojených státech amerických
Ethnographies”
In and Out of Song
The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back
Fictions, Frictions and Fragments
Negotiating Transcription as a Relative Insider
Cross-Cultural Researchers' Positionality in Immigrant Health Research
Nativity Seen in the Anthropocene
Studying one's own in the Middle East
Researching victimisation using auto-ethnography
Sami swoi? Refleksje metodologiczne o antropologii u siebie
My Life as a Chameleon
Recognizing respondents' ways of being and knowing
On Auto-Ethnographic Authority
Political Correctness
"What's in the Name "Applied Anthropology
A structural analysis of physician-midwife interaction in an obstetrical training program
A feminist revisiting of the insider/outsider debate
Inside Looking Around
Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective
Now I Gotta Watch What I Say
Social Ecology as Political Economy
Refractions of the Field at Home
An Ethnographic Filmflam
John Langston Gwaltney (1928-1998)
Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology
The Insider's Journey
The Visible Evidence of Cultural Producers
When Anthropology Is at Home
Anthropologists View American Culture
Standpoint Epistemology and the Uses of Self-Reflection in Feminist Ethnography
Unfamiliar compatriots
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |