essay
The tribulations of fieldwork
encounter and experience; personal accounts of fieldwork • Honolulu • Published In 1975 • Pages: 99-113
By: Béteille, André Marie.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- South Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1983
- Field Date
- 1961-1962
- Coverage Date
- 1961-1962
- Coverage Place
- community of Sripuram, Tanjore District, India
- Notes
- By André Béteille
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113)
- LCCN
- 75902105
- LCSH
- Tamil (Indic people)