Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork: History of Anthropology (Volume 1)

Stocking, G. W.

ISBN 10: 0299094545 / ISBN 13: 9780299094546

Published by University Of Wisconsin Press, 1983

About this Item

Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0299094545.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork: History of Anthropology (Volume 1)
• Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299094545
• ISBN 13: 9780299094546
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

History of Anthropology is a new series of annual volumes, each of which will treat an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. For this initial volume, the editors have chosen to focus on the modern cultural anthropology: intensive fieldwork by "participant observation." Observers Observed includes essays by a distinguished group of historians and anthropologists covering major episodes in the history of ethnographic fieldwork in the American, British, and French traditions since 1880. As the first work to investigate the development of modern fieldwork in a serious historical way, this collection will be of great interest and value to anthropologist, historians of science and the social sciences, and the general readers interested in the way in which modern anthropologists have perceived and described the cultures of "others." Included in this volume are the contributions of Homer G. Barnett, University of Oregon; James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz; Douglas Cole, Simon Frazer University; Richard Handler, Lake Forest College; Curtis Hinsley, Colgate University; Joan Larcom, Mount Holyoke College; Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley; and the editor.

About the Author

George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Victorian Anthropology; After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888–1951; Delimiting Anthropology, and The Ethnographer's Magic. He founded the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press and edited its first eight volumes.