Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation

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Positioned EngagementAwkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations, by Lynne Hume and Jane MulcockEthical EngagementsAwkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico, by Patty KellyMulti-sited EngagementsDisclosure and Interaction in a Monastery, by Michael V. AngrosinoGoing Beyond West and Rest: Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand, by Ida FadzillahMultiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture, by Russell ShuttleworthHe's Not a Spy, He's One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting, by Martin ForseyDissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle, by Jonathan TelferDoing Ethnography in 'One's Own Ethnic Community': The Experience of an Awkward Insider, by Val Colic-PeiskerAnd I Can't feel at Home in this World Anymore: Fieldwork in Two Settings, by Jim BirckheadYo, bitch... and Other Challenges: Bringing High-risk Ethnography into the Discourse, by Sylvie C. TourignyReflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users, by Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando HundtClosed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography, by John M. CoggeshallLiving in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi, by Gary RobinsonPerforming and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions, by Graham HarveyNot Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease, by Stewart MuirMulti-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork, by Sawa KurotaniMulti-sited Methodologies: Homework between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa