Doing Fieldwork: Eight Personal Accounts of Social Research. by Perry, John (editor) - 2002

Sydney: UNSW Press / Deakin University Press, 2002. Reissue ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, figures, tables, black & white text-photos, rear cover lightly scratched, minor edgewear. 155 pp. This book, edited by John Perry, aims to introduce students to the conduct of fieldwork, the way in which anthropologists and sociologists go about the business of collecting the 'facts' that are the basis for later theory and description. These eight personal accounts of their first experience of field research by academics at Deakin University were presented at a seminar for staff and student discussion. Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, specialises in distance education. (Reissue edition, with new ISBN. Originally published, 1989.).