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Steven Sampson

Steven Sampson

Professor emeritus

Steven Sampson

The perfect fieldwork

Author

  • Steven Sampson

Summary, in English

InvitedPaper presented at conference/seminar on difficult fieldwork, discusses compromises that ethnographers will have to make as their fieldwork becomes more fragmented and their study objects more suspicious, especially when studying elites; the possibility of any solidarity or empathy with the people we study may be declining.

Department/s

  • Social Anthropology

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1-10

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Social Anthropology

Keywords

  • social anthropology
  • ethnographic fieldwork

Conference name

Difficult Fieldwork: Negotiating the Practical, Personal and Political

Conference date

2014-06-15

Status

Unpublished