A much cited work on the experience of fieldwork, now in a new paperback edition
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The 18 essays in this volume describe field research programmes within rural and urban India, in complex organisations and in contrasting societies from other parts of the world, including Japan, Sri Lanka and New Mexico. This new edition has a prefatory review by Shah and Ramaswamy of recent literature on sociological fieldwork.
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Second edition. Octavo in chiefly pale yellow pictorial wraps; xvii, 288 pages; 23 cm; bibliographical references and index. Contents: The fieldworker and the field: a village in Karnataka /; M.N. Srinivas --; Studying the present and the past: a village in Gujarat /; A.M. Shah --; Experiences of an encapsulated observer: a village in Rajasthan /; Anand Chakravarti --; On tracks and tracts in my fieldwork: rural Kerala /; K. Raman Unni --; Fieldwork experience: relived and reconsidered: rural Uttar Pradesh /; P.C. Joshi --; Travails of a woman fieldworker: a small town in Uttar Pradesh /; Khadija A. Gupta --; A woman's encounter with Arya Samaj and untouchables: a slum in Jullundur /; Veen Dua --; The bottom view up: some cognitive categories: slums in Madras /; Beba D. Varadachar --; Objective appreciation through subjective involvement: a slum in Kanpur /; Maren Bellwinkel --; Making my way through caste images: untouchables in Poona /; Sunanda Patwardhan --; Trial and error in a new field: a factory in Gujarat /; N.R. Sheth --; Being where the action was: trade unions in Coimbatore /; E.A. Ramaswamy --; Walking on the edge of factionalism: an industrial co-operative in rural Maharashtra /; B.S. Baviskar --; Varied roles in the field: a hospital in Delhi /; Aneeta A. Minocha --; An apprenticeship marked by frustrations: college students in Mysore /; Chitra Sivakumar --; Selecting a 'representative' village: a village in Japan /; S. Seshaiah --; The anthropologist-informant relationship: the Navajo and Zuni in America and the Tharu in India /; Triloki Nath Pandey --; Problems of entry: Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Australia /; R. Jayaraman. / Sociology -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Fieldwork. Social sciences -- Fieldwork -- India. Social sciences -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Research -- India -- Case studies. Sociology -- Fieldwork -- India. Sciences sociales -- M?thodologie. Sciences sociales -- Recherche -- Inde -- ?tudes de cas. Sciences sociales -- Recherche sur le terrain -- Cas, ?tudes de. Sociologie -- Recherche sur le terrain -- Inde. Sciences sociales -- Recherche sur le terrain. Sciences sociales -- Recherche sur le terrain -- Inde. Sociology -- Fieldwork. Social sciences -- Research. Social sciences -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Fieldwork. Sociology -- Methodology. Feldforschung Soziologie. Case studies. Aufsatzsammlung. India. Indien. Fine with very faintest of edge wear to wrapper corners; as new. Please see photos. Seller Inventory # 94145