Anthropological Practice

Anthropologists are increasingly pressured to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long-term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique to anthropology and provides the context to explain and develop its practice-based and open-ended methodology. It draws on dialogues with twenty established and younger anthropologists whose fieldwork spans the 1960s to the present day, taking place in locations as diverse as Europe, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, and South America. Revealing first-hand and previously unrecorded aspects of fieldwork, Anthropological Practice provides critical, systematic ways to enhance anthropological practice.