Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://erepository.fmesinstitute.org/handle/123456789/1704
Title: Observations and reflections of a perpetual fieldworker.
Authors: Fox, R. C.
Issue Date: 2004
Publisher: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Citation: Fox, R. C. (2004). Observations and reflections of a perpetual fieldworker. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 595(September), 309–326.
Abstract: This article is based on the author's five decades of experience as a "perpetual fieldworker, engaged ethnographer," and teacher of field methods of social research. After dealing with what she perceives as a false dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative methods of research, she considers some of the cognitive characteristics of ethnographic research and distinctive properties of field data. She pays special attention to the complex role of participant observer within which an ethnographer conducts field research, focusing on the delicate balance between involvement and detachment that it entails and between listening and questioning. The article ends with an acknowledgement of the pivotal part that informants play in this kind of inquiry and with a tribute to the enduring meaning of a researcher's relationship to these "companions in the field" and her indebtedness to them.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716204266635
https://erepository.fmesinstitute.org/handle/123456789/1704
metadata.fmes.numPages: 309–326
Appears in Collections:Ethics

Files in This Item:
There are no files associated with this item.


Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.