essay
The tribulations of fieldwork
Encounter and experience; personal accounts of fieldwork • Honolulu • Published In 1975 • Pages: 99-113
By: Béteille, André Marie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
After a few introductory pages on general problems of fieldwork encountered by social scientists in doing ethnographic studies, the author turns to those that he specifically met and dealt with in his study of the community of Sripuram, in Tanjore District. Béteille's personal account relates to his choice of the village itself, the decision where to live in the village (i.e., in the Brahman area of the Harijan section of the community, or in a relatively neutral caste area in between), informant selection, and general relations with the village inhabitants as a whole. The document is unique in this collection in being one of the very few which makes the author's methodology the primary subject of discussion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Observation in research
- Purification and atonement
- Castes
- Social relationships and groups
- Tillage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1961-1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- community of Sripuram, Tanjore District, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- By André Béteille
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75902105
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)