This book covers short- and long-term participant observation and ethnographic interviewing and uses diverse cultures as cases.

This volume examines growth and change in American anthropology as the field has been influenced by Peace Corps volunteers.

"describes the varying ways in which closeness affects the nature of the anthropologists' observation, as well as an understanding of themselves and their discipline."

Through the art of personal narrative, this volume demonstrates that differing cultures can link to change fieldwork into friendship."

"...examines anthropological practice and product, confronting issues of representation and the power of discourse in the lives and practice of both those doing research and those being researched."

"...brings together personal accounts by a group of noted ethnographic researchers to examine the natural history of participant observation."

Explores how anthropologists manage issues of identity and sexuality in field research and professional life. In an era when the fieldworker's positionality is critical to research and ethnographic writing

"...brings sex and sexuality into the open as essential components of ethnographic study that must be overtly recognized and proactively addressed."

Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts.

Prominent archaeologists consider the effects of & the alternatives to the standard four-field structure of their discipline, which is based on the integration of archaeology & biological, socio-cultural, & linguistic anthropology.

"...presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting edge thinking contribute to a very wide range of activities: environmental issues, aid and development, advocacy, human rights, social policy, the creative arts, museums, health, education, crime, communications technology, design, marketing, and business."

"The twenty-nine poignant fieldwork tales collected here reveal much about what anthropology can teach about others as well as ourselves, the spirit of the ethnographic enterprise, and issues of crosscultural humanity and humaneness."