Being there : the necessity of fieldwork / Daniel Bradburd.
Being there : the necessity of fieldwork / Daniel Bradburd.
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Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1998.
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N305.8915/1
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English
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xviii, 186 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1998.
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District of Columbia
Date Published
c1998.
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Defining ethnography as the constant attempt to put specific events and encounters into a fuller context, Bradburd counters that field work virtually forces understanding on those who practice it. Exploring the role of the anthropologist as an interpreter of culture, he contends that the knowledge achieved through field experience holds the potenti...
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Being there : the necessity of fieldwork / Daniel Bradburd.
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Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181) and index.
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c1998.
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N305.8915/1
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74VM0de0AyrO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0de0AyrO
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ISBN
1560987537 (pbk. :alk. paper)
9781560987772 (cloth : alk. paper)
1560987774 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781560987536 (pbk. :alk. paper)
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305.8915
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991001654689702626
