Critical Journeys: The Making of Anthropologists

by Geert De Neve and Maya Unnithan-Kumar

Book Overview

Through an 'ethnography of ethnographers', this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preconceptions, assumptions and expectations of themselves as young anthropologists, and on the ways in which early decisions are made about fieldwork and about the selection of field locations. They question how fieldworkers come to understand what anthropology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138262633
• ISBN13: 9781138262638
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"