Observing the Observer: Understanding Our Selves in Field Research

by Shulamit Reinharz

Ethnography or participant observation research has been performed since the early nineteenth century and is now one of the most common ways for field researchers to gain an in-depth understanding of social life. In Observing the Observer: Understanding Our Selves in Field Research--the only book that covers the issue of "reflexivity" in field research--author Shulamit Reinharz provides a captivating analysis of her yearlong stay in Israel, where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195397800
• ISBN13: 9780195397802
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"