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The fieldworker and the field : problems and challenges in sociological investigation

Title
The fieldworker and the field : problems and challenges in sociological investigation / edited by M.N. Srinivas, A.M. Shah, E.A. Ramaswamy.
Publication
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Srinivas, Mysore Narasimhachar.
  • Shah, A. M., 1931-2020
  • Ramaswamy, E. A.
Description
xvii, 288 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
Collected articles; with special reference to India.
Series Statement
Oxford India paperbacks
Uniform Title
Oxford India paperbacks
Subject
  • Sociology > Methodology
  • Social sciences > Fieldwork
  • Social sciences > Fieldwork > India
  • Social sciences > Methodology
  • Sciences sociales > Méthodologie
  • Sciences sociales > Recherche sur le terrain
  • Sciences sociales > Recherche sur le terrain > Inde
  • Social sciences > Methodology
  • Social sciences > Fieldwork
  • Sociology > Methodology
  • India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes 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 / Veena 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.
ISBN
  • 0195668340
  • 9780195668346
OCLC
  • ocm55891894
  • 55891894
  • SCSB-8800158
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library