"considers the role of the anthropologist as fieldworker and writer, examining the ways in which nationality, age, gender, and personal history influence the anthropologist's behavior towards the individuals he is observing."

"It introduces biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics; develops and integrates an original theory: that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity."

Description of methods used in long-term anthropological field projects, some extending over half a century.

"...explores the attempts by a professor and 10 students to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts that represent aspects of people's lives."

"Ten innovative ethnographic projects demonstrate how new and more complicated locations of research from the boardrooms of multinational corporations to the chat rooms of the Internet are giving rise to shifts in the character of both fieldwork and fieldworker."

"...guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in consumer environments... using methodologies from focus groups and rapid appraisal to semiotics and visual ethnography."

"The authors touch all of the relevant bases-the articulation of theory and practice, the ethical dimension of methodological commitment, the role demands of researchers in a commercial context-that a cultural construal of ethnographic work requires. The volume appeals to readers of 'pure' and 'applied' persuasions alike, and offers timely insight into ethnography as a vocation." · John F. Sherry, Jr, University of Notre Dame

These essays examine many facets of American urban life, among them new social movements that mobilize and work on behalf of people with AIDS and that fight against nuclear war the decisive roles South East Asian women play in building new immigrant communities and school programs for African-American children.

Written by anthropologists who have been in the midst of violent conflict, these essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places.

" ...the authors emphasize the need for a comprehensive medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors in order to understand the origin of ill health and to contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems."

This book enables novices and professionals alike to jointly assess the extent to which the benefits of development are shared--and by whom. It presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world.

"... examines issues, methods, and models for doing life history research with individual Americans based on interviews and participant observation. "

"Studying across race and ethnic lines creates many problems for the researcher involving practical, strategic, ethical and epistemological questions alike. The contributors to this volume examine the array of methods used in quantitative, qualitative and comparative/historical research to show how ethnic-sensitive research can be carried out."

How should the researcher approach the sensitive subject of the child? What are the ethical issues involved with researching children's experiences? The essays in this text address these questions, and examine up-to-date methodological and conceptual approaches to researching children.

"The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about users, and about knowledge more broadly, when they build software? How should humans interact with computers, and how do they, really? Why do computing firms hire anthropologists to study human-computer interaction, and what do anthropologists find once they are hired? And how and why are traditional power asymmetries between men and women produced and maintained in engineering firms and laboratories?"

"Research on children's play appears in two forms in the anthropological literature. The fact that young humans play in one way or another in all societies
in the world is illustrated by the numerous descriptions of this activity appearing in ethnographers. The second type of literature available on this subject consists of attempts on the part of investigators to formulate specific definitions and/or theoretical
statements about the play behavior of children."