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UNINA9910789692003321 |
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Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology / / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011 |
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1-84545-743-9 |
1-84545-851-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; volume 4 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FuentesAgustin |
MacClancyJeremy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Fieldwork |
Physical anthropology - Fieldwork |
Primates - Fieldwork |
Primatology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Centralizing Fieldwork; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Centralizing Fieldwork; 2. The Dos and Don'ts of Fieldwork; 3. The Anthropologist as a Primatologist; 4. Primate Fieldwork and its Human Contexts in Southern Madagascar; 5. Problem Animals or Problem People?; 6. Ecological Anthropology and Primatology; 7. Lost in Translation; 8. Measuring Meaning and Understanding in Primatological and Biological Anthropology Fieldwork; 9. Fieldwork as Research Process and Community Engagement; 10. Framing the Quantitative within the Qualitative |
11. Considerations on Field Methods Used to Assess Nonhuman Primate Feeding Behaviour and Human Food Intake in Terms of Nutritional Requirements12. Anthropobiological Surveys in the Field; 13. Field Schools in Central America; 14. The Narrator's Stance; 15. Natural Homes; 16. Popularizing Fieldwork; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological |
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