Fieldworkers and Research Subjects
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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5844237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray L Wax (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 29-29 |
| Publication date | 1977-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3560475 |
| PMID | 893075 |
| OpenAlex | W2133803996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
I n the fifth century B.C., Herodotus traveled far afield from his native Greece and encountered people with strange and different customs. A careful observer, he wrote detailed descriptions of their environment and physical appearance, their language, laws, marriage and divorce rules, religion, war customs, and government. Herodotus has often been called the father of history; he was, in addition, probably the first anthropological fieldworker. From Herodotus' time on, travelers, explorers, missionaries, merchants, and natural historians described the cultures of the world. Inadequate though they were, these reports helped stimulate in the eighteenth century the social reflections of Montesquieu, Diderot, and Rousseau, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, those of Marx, Freud, and Durkheim. Bronislaw Malinowski, who lived among the Trobriand Islanders in World War I, established fieldwork as the principal research methodology of modern cultural anthropology. Often called participant observation, this method involves gathering data by firsthand observation; fieldworkers live among the people they are studying and participate
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2013 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |