Research Methods in the Field: Eleven anthropological accounts is more than a textbook of research methodologies employed by anthropologists in the course of field work; it provides eleven accounts of the practical experience of working anthropologists. It focuses on the methods employed by them, the way in which those methods were modified to suit the particular conditions in which they worked, and the reasons why particular methods were chosen. These are hands-on, warts-and-all accounts of how anthropologists go about field research. the following methodologies are covered: Participant observation and language learning (Thailand), The self as research instrument (West Bengal), Doing anthropology at home (Australia), The use of informants and research assistants, census taking, sampling techniques and questionnair design (Kiribati), Group interviewing on sensitive subjects (Papua New Guinea), obtaining information from a school-age sub-population (Sri Lanka), Oral biography (Lesotho), The use of historical data in ethnographic study (Scotland) Oral History (Australia).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bill Geddes
Bill Geddes completed his doctoral research in 1975 at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has researched in the Pacific in the areas of socio-economic organisation and development, economic anthropology and migration and has published in those areas. He is currently researching the nature of globalisation and advertising and the ways in which these phenomena of the late twentieth century impact on local communities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Malcolm Crick
Malcolm Crick studied social anthropology as an undergraduate at the University of Sussex and then proceeded to postgraduate work at the University of Oxford where he held the Alan Coltart Anthropology Scholarship. He completed his doctoral research in 1974 and his first book, based on that research, Explorations in Language and Meaning: Towards a Semantic Anthropology, was published in 1976. A year later he came to Australia to take up an academic appointment at Deakin University where he is now an associate professor in anthropology. He did fieldwork on international tourism in Sri Lanka in 1982 and his book based on that research, Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voice, was published in 1994. His current research focuses on heritage, tourism, community, and sexual change in Maldon.
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