The Art of Fieldwork

chapter 1 Part One: Fieldwork Contexts
1.Introduction: Portrait of the Author as a Not-so-Young Man, About the Title and Contents, About Art, art, Art, The Arts, The Fine Arts
chapter 2 2.Fieldwork as Art? A Fieldworker Is (Most) Like A, Artists and Artisans and "All That Is Required"
chapter 3 3.How Art Works: Defining Art and Artists, Art vs. Craft as a Public Decision, The "Minor Art" World of Fieldworkers, The Patron Effect, Observing Convention, The Limits of Convention, Artistic License Reconsidered
chapter 4 Part Two: The Fieldwork Part of Fieldwork
4. Fieldwork vs. (Just) Being in the Field: Data Gathering as Technique, Who Are Today's Fieldworkers?, Fieldwork as Intimate, Long-Term Acquaintance, How Intimate Is Intimate?, Performance First, Then Script
chapter 5 5.Fieldwork: The Basic Arts: Courtesy and Common Sense, Being There, Getting Nosy, Looking Over Other's Shoulders
Fieldwork: The Darker Arts: Superficiality, Obviousness, Self-Serving, Lack of Independence, Deception and Betrayal, Clandestine Observation,
chapter 6 Part Three: Fieldwork as Mindwork
7. The Art of (Conceptual) Self-Defense: Scientific Method, Objectivity and Bias, neutrality, Reliability, Validity, Generalization, Self-Defense vs. Getting Defensive
chapter 7 8. The Art of Conceptualizing: Theory, Mental Set, A Capacity for Judgment
chapter 8 9. The Art of Self-Expression: Begin Writing Early, Anticipate How You Will Parcel Out the Study, Work "Start to Finish" but Think "Finish to Start", Writing with Panache, Writing as Central to the Art of Fieldwork, Writing as Disciplined Activity
chapter 9 Part Four: Fieldwork As Personal Work
10.The Satisfactions of Fieldwork: Being-or Becoming-a Sociable Social Researcher, A Hint of Adventure, Problem Setting as Intellectual Challenge, The Authority of Authorship, Looking at Life
chapter 10 11.The Art of Fieldwork: How Art Works, Art in the Conduct of Fieldwork, Art in Relating the Fieldwork Story
chapter 11 References and Select Bibliography
chapter 12 Name Index
chapter 13 Subject Index
chapter 14 About the Author
chapter 15 About The Book

Far more than a how-to-do-it handbook, The Art of Fieldwork offers a rich, engaging discourse drawing from a lifetime of personal experiences.