Mirrored Images: American Anthropology and American Culture, 1960-1980

by Susan R. Trencher

Fieldwork has long been seen as central to anthropology as a critical source of ethnographic data and analytic insight. In the late 1970s, earlier assumptions about fieldwork method and epistemological grounding were challenged in so-called reflexive ethnographies. These ethnographies, specifically focused on the field project, were part of the general interpretive turn in American social science which itself was concurrent with the turmoil in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897896734
• ISBN13: 9780897896733
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"