Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Wayne Fife (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriented books, articles, or reports. The reader is taught how to combine historic and contemporary documents (e.g. archives, newspapers, government reports) with fieldwork methods (e.g. participant-observation, interviews, and self-reporting) to create ethnographic studies of disadvantaged populations. Anthropologists, Sociologists, Folklorists and Educational researchers will equally benefit from this critical approach to research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Using Historical Sources for Ethnographic Research....Pages 17-31
Contemporary Scholarly Sources and a Theoretical Orientation....Pages 33-51
Newspapers and Government Documents: Popular and Official Sources of Information....Pages 53-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Participant-Observation as a Research Method....Pages 71-92
Interviewing....Pages 93-106
Self-Reporting....Pages 107-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Analysis....Pages 119-137
Creating and Testing Theory....Pages 139-147
Academic and Practical Writing....Pages 149-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-174

✦ Subjects

Geology; Ethnography; Sociology, general; Regional and Cultural Studies; Anthropology