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Contiene: In this lively book, thirteen distinguished anthropologists examine how they and their colleagues create, use, and feel about the unique forms of writing they produce while doing fieldwork. The collection assesses the fieldnotes and fieldwork of germinal figures -Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W.H.R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead- and traces the development of the writing and perception of fieldnotes through today's ethnographic, quantitative, and interpretationist concerns. The authors collectively explore the modes of fieldwork writing -inscription, description, and transciption- and the forms it takes -scratchnotes, fieldnotes, records, texts, journals, diaries, letters, and tape transcripts. This book will provide an indispensable resource for social and cultural anthropologists, oral historians, ethnographers, and sociologists, and for anyone interested in learning how anthropologists do their work.

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