The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and LifeISBN: 978-1-4051-6981-3
Paperback
328 pages
August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable'
and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter
- Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical,
epistemological, and political) faced by researchers who examine
the subjectivities inherent in their ethnographic insights
- Explores the value, and limitations, of addressing the personal
in ethnographic research
- Includes a critical discussion of the anthropologist’s
self in the field
- Introduces imaginative rigor to ethnographic research to heighten confidence in anthropological knowledge