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Volume 47

New Directions in Anthropology

Reviews

“It is a work of excellence … a bold, honest, frank, personal account of an anthropologist doing ethnography in a multitude of settings and circumstances. Shokeid confronts the many complexities of fieldwork and qualitative social science research. It is an important work in the tradition of critical and public anthropology that should find a place in the curricula of every social science graduate program.” • Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, University of New Orleans

Description

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the Unted States, this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings. That varied panorama of research milieus, ethnographic field sites, and diverse personal engagements, has offered a wide perspective on the complex craft of anthropology. Moreover, it sometimes placed the author in unexpected situations that challenged some habitually accepted modes of personal conduct as well as ethnographic research norms and paradigms, expanding the arena and terms of the anthropological assignments and the record of ethnographic works.

Subject: Theory and MethodologyAnthropology (General)

Area: North AmericaMiddle East & Israel

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Of Related Interest

The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ethnographic Practice in the Present

Expert Knowledge

First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology

Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology