|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues
|
Buy Now
Doing Fieldwork - The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,909
Discovery Miles 39 090
|
|
|
Doing Fieldwork - The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely
undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the
highlands had become one of the most anthropologically
well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the
research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934
and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and
guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant
and urban communities in other areas of the world. Their work
helped to define the major outlines of research in the 1970s, and
since then much writing about the region has been formulated in
critical response to the Redfield-Tax program. Not coincidentally,
since the mid-1970s anthropology has been caught up in a wave of
self-doubt about the status of fieldwork and the authority of
ethnographic description. This critical stance has often cast
ethnography as a creative, literary enterprise. This volume
presents a timely view of the process of ethnography as carried out
by two of its early practitioners. Containing a wealth of
ethnographic detail, the book reveals how Redfield and Tax
developed and tested ethnological hypotheses, and it allows us to
follow the development of their major theoretical statements. The
result is an exceptionally clear picture of the process of
ethnography. Redfield and Tax emerge as rigorous and sensitive
observers of social life whose observations bear importantly on
contemporary understandings of the ethnology of Guatemala and the
enterprise of anthropology. This book will be of interest to
students of method and theory in ethnography, Latin Americanists,
and other professionals interested in the history of idea.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
