Anthropologists at Home in North America: Methods and Issues in the Study of One's Own Society.

Abstract

Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. On anthropology 'at home' Donald A. Messerschmidt 2. Insider research: an ethnography of a debate John L. Aguilar Part II. Urban Studies: 3. Unseen community: the natural history of a research project Paul Bohannan 4. Common sense and science: urban core black observations John L. Gwaltney 5. Observer participation and consulting: research in urban food cooperatives Richard Zimmer 6. The masking of social reality: ethnographic fieldwork in the bureaucracy David Serber Part III. Rural Studies: 7. Longitudinal research in rural North America: the Saskatchewan Cultural Ecology Research Program, 1960-1973 John W. Bennett and Seena Kohl 8. Social networks and community administration: a comparative study of two mining towns Susan Brandt Graham 9. The anthropologist as key informant: inside a rural Oregon town Lawrence Hennigh 10. Neighboring: discovering support systems among Norwegian-American women Agnes M. Aamodt Part IV. Health Systems: 11. Applied ethnoscience in rural America: New Age health and healing Craig Molgaard and Elizabeth Byerly 12. Interactive research in a feminist setting: The Vancouver Women's Health Collective Linda Light and Nancy Kleiber Part V. Education Systems: 13. Constraints in government research: the anthropologist in a rural school district Donald A. Messerschmidt 14. Many roles, many faces: researching school-community relations in a heterogeneous American urban community R. Timothy Sieber Part VI. Contract Anthropology: 15. Anthropology under contract: two examples from Alaska Kerry D. Feldman 16. Talking to an agency: communicating the research findings Ruth M. Houghton Part VII. Reflections on Anthropology at Home: 17. Home and away: personal contrasts in ethnographic style Harry F. Wolcott Contributors Notes Bibliography Index.