People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork

People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork
ISBN-10
0520906497
ISBN-13
9780520906495
Category
Social Science
Pages
187
Language
English
Published
1980-03-13
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
Robert A. Georges, Michael O. Jones

Description

The authors of this book demonstrate that fieldwork is first and foremost a human pursuit. They draw upon published and unpublished accounts of fieldworkers' personal experiences to develop the thesis that an appreciation of fieldwork as a unique mode of inquiry depends upon an understanding of the role the human element plays in it. They analyze the processes involved when people study people firsthand, focusing upon the recurrent human problems that arise and must be solved. The human processes and problems, they argue, are common to all fieldwork, regardless of the disciplinary backgrounds or the specific interests of individual researchers.

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