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Recounting her own field experiences in Japanese-American relocation centers during World War II and later in American Indian communities, Rosalie H. Wax offers advice to help the beginning field worker anticipate and confront the exigencies and accidents of fieldwork with good nature, fortitude, and common sense. Doing Fieldwork is a useful book in many respects: as a guide to participant observation and ethnographic fieldwork; as an analysis of the theoretical presuppositions and history of fieldwork; as a discussion of contemporary issues in social science research; and simply as an entertaining and dramatic story.

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• Preface
• Part 1 Introduction
• 1 Theoretical Presuppositions of Fieldwork
• 2 The First and Most Uncomfortable Stage of
• 3 A Historical Sketch of Fieldwork
• 4 The Ambiguities of Fieldwork
• Part 2 Fieldwork in the Japanese American Relocation Centers 1943-1945
• 5 Background
• 6 I Begin to Work
• 7 The Difficult Field Situation: Case Histories and Discussion
• 8 First Visit to Tule Lake
• 9 Second Visit to Tule Lake
• 10 The Resegregation Petition
• 11 Shooting, Beatings, and Murder
• 12 Fieldwork in a Factionalized Community
• 13 I Become an Antifanatic
• 14 The Debacle
• Part 3 Fieldwork on the Thrashing Buffalo Reservation 1962-1963
• 15 We Decide to Study Indian Education
• 16 Still Looking for a Home
• 17 Participant Observation at the GoodHorses'
• 18 Life at Witkokia
• 19 The Scandel
• 20 How Does One Find and Work on a Problem?
• 21 Good Fieldworkers and Good Respondents
• Part 4 Among the Six Friendly Tribes 1966-1967
• 22 A Difficult Beginning
• 23 The First Six Weeks
• 24 Distressing and Confusing Developments
• 25 The Opening of the Ball Park
• 26 The Poor Man and the Aristocrat
• 27 We Are Attacked
• 28 From Research to Conflict
• 29 The Confrontation
• 30 Comments on the Gokachi Research
• 31 Final Thoughts
• Bibliography
• Index