Re: foreign versus domestic fieldwork
Toby Cockcroft (hegeman@wchat.on.ca)
Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:35:56 -0400
In article <32D6D4AB.3055@byu.edu>, Shannon Adams <shannon_adams@byu.edu> wrote:
>This is something that I've been wondering about for a long time.
>Should anthropologists (cultural) limit their studies to
>foreign/exotic/pre-literate societies? Is there something of value that
>anthropologists could contribute in a domestic study? What are the
>hang-ups for an American anthropologist conducting fieldwork in America
>(the political unit, no sly comments about doing work on the res.)? I
>know a lot of people would claim this is the domain of a sociologist but
>is it? Should it be?
>
>Shannon
Do a bit of reading in some new journals and you will see that infact
anthropologists have been doing precisely what you suggest. In my
department of the dozen graduate students only one has chosen a subject
area outside of North America while the rest of us have chosen to do topics
that relate to our culture. Domestic studies are being done as we speak.
Toby
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Toby R. G. Cockcroft MA (in progress)
Dept. Of Anthropology
Univerity of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canada
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