The fieldworker and the field: problems and challenges in sociological investigation/ edited by M.N. Srinivas, A.M. Shah and E.A. Ramaswamy - 2nd ed. - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. - xvii, 288 p. ; 23 cm.

The fieldworker and the field : a village in Karnataka / M.N. Srinivas --
Studying the present and the past : a village in Gujarat / A.M. Shah --
Experiences of an encapsulated observer : a village in Rajasthan / Anand Chakravarti --
On tracks and tracts in my fieldwork : rural Kerala / K. Raman Unni --
Fieldwork experience : relived and reconsidered : rural Uttar Pradesh / P.C. Joshi --
Travails of a woman fieldworker : a small town in Uttar Pradesh / Khadija A. Gupta --
A woman's encounter with Arya Samaj and untouchables : a slum in Jullundur / Veen Dua --
The bottom view up : some cognitive categories : slums in Madras / Beba D. Varadachar --
Objective appreciation through subjective involvement : a slum in Kanpur / Maren Bellwinkel --
Making my way through caste images : untouchables in Poona / Sunanda Patwardhan --
Trial and error in a new field : a factory in Gujarat / N.R. Sheth --
Being where the action was : trade unions in Coimbatore / E.A. Ramaswamy --
Walking on the edge of factionalism : an industrial co-operative in rural Maharashtra / B.S. Baviskar --
Varied roles in the field : a hospital in Delhi / Aneeta A. Minocha --
An apprenticeship marked by frustrations : college students in Mysore / Chitra Sivakumar --
Selecting a 'representative' village: a village in Japan / S. Seshaiah --
The anthropologist-informant relationship : the Navajo and Zuni in America and the Tharu in India / Triloki Nath Pandey --
Problems of entry : Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Australia / R. Jayaraman.

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