Stumbling toward truth : anthropologists at work /
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| Imprint: | Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, c2000. |
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| Description: | xviii, 272 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6415608 |
Table of Contents:
- An anthropologist as travel writer / Robert Tonkinson
- Getting below the surface / Douglas Raybeck
- Of softball bats and fishnets : a summer in the Alaskan bush / George Gmelch
- The first Rotumans / Alan Howard
- Navigating Nigerian bureaucracies : or "Why can't you beg?" she demanded / Elizabeth A. Eames
- Two tales from the Trukese taproom / Mac Marshall
- Reflections of a shy ethnographer : foot-in-the-mouth is not fatal / Juliana Flinn
- Greasy hands and smelly clothes : fieldworker or fisherman / Philip DeVita
- Of teamwork, faith, and trust in western Sumatra / Carol J. Colfer
- Some consequences of a fieldworker's gender for cross-cultural research / Susan Dwyer-Shick
- Fieldwork that failed / Linda L. Kent
- Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing
- Ethnocentrism and the Abelam / Richard Scaglion
- What drives the birds? molting ducks, freshman essays, and cultural logic / Phyllis Morrow
- What did the earthquake mean? / Alice Pomponio
- Centering : lessons learned from Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer
- Don't mess with eagle power! / James Clifton
- A very bad disease of the arms / Michael Kearney
- Too many bananas, not enough pineapples, and no watermelons at all / David Counts
- Lessons in introductory anthropology from the Bakairi Indians / Debra S. Picchi
- Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda
- Pigs of the forest and other unwritten papers / Terence E. Hays
- Lesson from the field : gullibility and the hazards of money lending / Cindy Hull
- To die on Ambae : on the possibility of doing fieldwork forever / William L. Rodman and Margaret C. Rodman
- A letter from the field / Marty Zelenietz
- Turning tears into nothing / Miles Richardson
- Did you? / Ward H. Goodenough
- Munju / Trecie Melnick
- The inseparability of reason and emotion in the anthrpological perspective : perceptions upon leaving the field / Kris Heggenbougen.