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foreign versus domestic fieldwork
Shannon Adams (shannon_adams@byu.edu)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:45:47 -0800
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
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