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Methodology and fieldwork / edited by Vinay Kumar Srivastava.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropologyPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: x, 500 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195667271
  • 9780195667271
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.072 22
LOC classification:
  • HM517 .M48 2004
Contents:
I. Character of social research -- On reality : its perception and construction / Satish Saberwal -- On classification / Ramkrishna Mukherjee -- The first intersubjectivity : the anthropologist and the native / Gananath Obeyesekere -- To contrast and compare / Alan Macfarlane -- The comparative method and the standpoint of the investigator / Andre Beteille -- Restudies in anthropology / Peter Kloos -- II. Intensive fieldwork and ethnography -- Ethnography : method and product / Gerald D. Berreman -- In pursuit of anthropology / T. N. Madan -- Informal collaborations as an aspect of urban anthropological fieldwork : experiences from Jaipur City / James Laidlaw -- Fieldwork in Rishi Valley School / Meenakshi Thapan -- Sparks of contingency : photography and anthropology in India / Christopher Pinney -- III. Surveys and documents -- Caste and world view : the application of survey research methods / Joseph W. Elder -- Perceptions of princely rule : perspectives from a biography / A. C. Mayer -- Becoming a diarist : Amar Singh's construction of an Indian personal document / S. H. Rudolph and L. I. Rudolph -- Study of changes in the Indian family / A. M. Shah -- Networks / John van Willigen and N. K. Chadha -- IV. Ethical and ideological issues -- Problems in practice / J. A. Barnes -- Search for women's voices : reflections on fieldwork, 1968-93 / Malavika Karlekar -- Collecting the life history of an Indian untouchable / James M. Freeman -- The insider versus the outsider in the study of cultures / M. N. Srinivas -- The native anthropologist : constraints and strategies in research / Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes -- On payments to respondents / V. K. Srivastava.
Summary: Contributed articles chiefly with reference to India.Review: "This reader provides a cross disciplinary account of research methodology, covering the character of social research, fieldwork, ethnography, and survey research as also the ethical and ideological issues involved in doing research." "The contributions from well-known ethnographers and social scientists highlight the nature of social research, and conceptualize social reality and its dimensions. They discuss the importance of classification, the relevance of comparison and restudy in social research, and the possibility of arriving as close as possible to the subject's point of view." "This collection of essays on methodology and fieldwork is an indispensable read for students, teachers and researchers across disciplines, particularly those from sociology, social anthropology, and other branches of social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-487) and index.

I. Character of social research -- On reality : its perception and construction / Satish Saberwal -- On classification / Ramkrishna Mukherjee -- The first intersubjectivity : the anthropologist and the native / Gananath Obeyesekere -- To contrast and compare / Alan Macfarlane -- The comparative method and the standpoint of the investigator / Andre Beteille -- Restudies in anthropology / Peter Kloos -- II. Intensive fieldwork and ethnography -- Ethnography : method and product / Gerald D. Berreman -- In pursuit of anthropology / T. N. Madan -- Informal collaborations as an aspect of urban anthropological fieldwork : experiences from Jaipur City / James Laidlaw -- Fieldwork in Rishi Valley School / Meenakshi Thapan -- Sparks of contingency : photography and anthropology in India / Christopher Pinney -- III. Surveys and documents -- Caste and world view : the application of survey research methods / Joseph W. Elder -- Perceptions of princely rule : perspectives from a biography / A. C. Mayer -- Becoming a diarist : Amar Singh's construction of an Indian personal document / S. H. Rudolph and L. I. Rudolph -- Study of changes in the Indian family / A. M. Shah -- Networks / John van Willigen and N. K. Chadha -- IV. Ethical and ideological issues -- Problems in practice / J. A. Barnes -- Search for women's voices : reflections on fieldwork, 1968-93 / Malavika Karlekar -- Collecting the life history of an Indian untouchable / James M. Freeman -- The insider versus the outsider in the study of cultures / M. N. Srinivas -- The native anthropologist : constraints and strategies in research / Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes -- On payments to respondents / V. K. Srivastava.

Contributed articles chiefly with reference to India.

"This reader provides a cross disciplinary account of research methodology, covering the character of social research, fieldwork, ethnography, and survey research as also the ethical and ideological issues involved in doing research." "The contributions from well-known ethnographers and social scientists highlight the nature of social research, and conceptualize social reality and its dimensions. They discuss the importance of classification, the relevance of comparison and restudy in social research, and the possibility of arriving as close as possible to the subject's point of view." "This collection of essays on methodology and fieldwork is an indispensable read for students, teachers and researchers across disciplines, particularly those from sociology, social anthropology, and other branches of social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

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