TY - BOOK ID - 77877445 TI - People studying people : the human element in fieldwork AU - Georges, Robert A. AU - Jones, Michael Owen. PY - 1980 SN - 1282355171 9786612355172 0520906497 9780520906495 0520039890 0520040678 9780520040670 9781282355170 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Interpersonal relations. KW - Social sciences KW - Human relations KW - Interpersonal relationships KW - Personal relations KW - Relations, Interpersonal KW - Relationships, Interpersonal KW - Social behavior KW - Social psychology KW - Object relations (Psychoanalysis) KW - Fieldwork. KW - Field work KW - Methodology KW - academia. KW - anthropologists. KW - anthropology. KW - communication. KW - community. KW - confidentiality. KW - fieldwork approach. KW - fieldwork methods. KW - fieldwork. KW - folklore. KW - grad school. KW - graduate research. KW - human element. KW - information gathering. KW - interview methods. KW - interview questions. KW - mutual learning. KW - nonfiction. KW - observer effect. KW - reference. KW - relationships. KW - research methods. KW - research subjects. KW - researcher and subject. KW - ritual. KW - social science. KW - sociology. KW - trust. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877445 AB - The authors of this book demonstrate that fieldwork is first and foremost a human pursuit. They draw upon published and unpublished accounts of fieldworkers' personal experiences to develop the thesis that an appreciation of fieldwork as a unique mode of inquiry depends upon an understanding of the role the human element plays in it. They analyze the processes involved when people study people firsthand, focusing upon the recurrent human problems that arise and must be solved. The human processes and problems, they argue, are common to all fieldwork, regardless of the disciplinary backgrounds or the specific interests of individual researchers. ER -