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The Two-Party Line: Conversations in the Field

The Two-Party Line: Conversations in the Field

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The Two-Party Line: Conversations in the Field

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Overview

This honest glimpse into the nature of ethnographic fieldwork, revolves around letters written by the author to illustrate the daily adventures of learning to understand a largely unknown culture through participant observation and interactive discourse.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847682638
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/10/1996
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.77(d)

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Editorial Reviews

The book is worth the attention of a contemporary audience... This is a unique book and is likely to remain so. ...useful for stimulating discussion on a vast array of topics...

Richard Scaglionn Anthropologist

These letters make an absorbing read. The introductory and closing chapters, together with the instructive postscripts at the end of each chapter of letters, provide instructive commentary for students and fellow practicing anthropologists alike, as well as for the interested lay audience. The process of learning another language and culture, while it involves systematic elicitation procedures whenever possible, is largely a matter of hanging in there and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise. These letters of Professors Goodale and Chowning document that process vividly.

Ward H. Goodenough

The book is expertly edited, with interesting commentaries by Goodale.

Choice Reviews

The Two-Party Line is a retrospective glimpse of an almost unique kind—an anthropological conversation from the 1960s between two fieldworkers, living by themselves but within communicating distance, and sharing experiences at once common and divergent. The letters bring the 1960s to life in a fresh and witty way, with a commentary in keeping with the time. A wonderful historical document. This is a gem of a book, a genre that grew of itself and a story that grows on the reader.

Marilyn Strathern

.. . a fascinating and delightful book. .. It is a deeply personal book and a true adventure story. .. a joy to read. .. Those folks who read books of adventure, travel, and science written for laypeople will love it.

Dorothy Ayers Counts

The book is expertly edited, with interesting commentaries by Goodale.

Choice

The book is expertly edited, with interesting commentaries by Goodale.

CHOICE

The book is worth the attention of a contemporary audience... This is a unique book and is likely to remain so. ...useful for stimulating discussion on a vast array of topics...

American Anthropologist - Richard Scaglion

The book is worth the attention of a contemporary audience... This is a unique book and is likely to remain so. ...useful for stimulating discussion on a vast array of topics...
— Richard Scaglion, University of Pittsburgh

American Anthropologist

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