Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax by Redfield, Robert; Tax, Sol; Rubinstein, Robert A. (editor) - 2002

New. Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant and urban communities in other areas of the world. Their work helped to define the major outlines of research in the 1970s, and since then much writing about the region has been formulated in critical response to the Redfield-Tax program. Not coincidentally, since the mid-1970s anthropology has been caught up in a wave of self-doubt about the status of fieldwork and the authority of ethnographic description. This critical stance has often cast ethnography as a creative, literary enterprise. This volume presents a timely view of the process of ethnography as… Read More

Transaction Pub, 2001. Paperback. New. 354 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Between 1934 and 1941, Robert Redfield and Sol Tax developed lines of research that anticipated and guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant and urban communities. This book traces the development of their ethnological hypotheses and theoretical statements.

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Transaction Pub, 2001. Paperback. New. 354 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches.

Routledge, 2001-02-28. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Routledge. Paperback. New. 8x6x0.