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Synopsis
This book features the contributions of a wide range of researchers who consider the key research problems in their given field site and how they were managed. The selections give the novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties and apprehensions that are part of research, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues.
Booknews
Contributions consider research problems and their solutions, giving novice researchers a keyhole view of their respective fields. They discuss each aspect of the research act<-->from establishing oneself in the fieldwork setting to presentation and representation issues. Four major sections cover: pursuing intimate familiarity and the problem of membership; issues in methodological practice; ethics, intervention, and emotionality; and ethnographic text and ethnographic voice. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.