Doing Fieldwork: Eight Personal Accounts of Social Research

Perry, John

ISBN 10: 0730007863 / ISBN 13: 9780730007869

Published by U.S.A.: Deakin University Press, 1989

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Trade paperback in very good minus to good condition. Stamp and sticker on front end page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Fieldwork: Eight Personal Accounts of Social Research
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Deakin University Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0730007863
• ISBN 13: 9780730007869
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology

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Synopsis

This book aims to introduce students to the conduct of fieldwork, the way in which anthropologists and sociologists go about the business of collecting the ‘facts’ that are the basis for later theory and description.

About the Author

Edited by Dr John Perry. Dr Perry is Associate Professor in Anthropology in the School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University. He received his doctorate from Rhodes University in South Africa. He has done fieldwork in Lesotho and South Africa and has since carried out research in an Australian country town (Stawell). His main publications have been in legal and political anthropology, and in the field of power and symbolism. He and his wife, Cassandra, recorded and compiled the oral biography of Mr Jingoes, published by Oxford University Press.