Participant Observation

Presenter: May Tamimova, PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

Recommended Readings: 

Crane, Julia G. and Angrosino, Michael V. (1992). Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc. (Project Five: Participant Observation, p. 64-74).  

Birckhead, Jim. (2004). “And I Can’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore: Fieldwork in Two Settings,” in Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation, eds. Hume, Lynne., and Mulcock, Jane. New York: Columbia UP, pp. 95-107.