Centralizing Fieldwork : Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology.
Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primato...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2010.
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| ISBN: | 9781845458515 1845458516 9781845456900 1845456904 9781845457433 1845457439 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Centralizing Fieldwork; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Centralizing Fieldwork; 2. The Dos and Don'ts of Fieldwork; 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist; 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar; 5. Problem Animals or Problem People?; 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology; 7. Lost in Translation; 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork; 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement; 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative.
- 11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field; 13. Field Schools in Central America; 14. The Narrator's Stance; 15. Natural Homes; 16. Popularizing Fieldwork; Contributors; Index.