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He seems one part ethnographic participant-observer to one part strikingly old-school German romantic, an artist who considers his work no more than the trace of the experience that produced it.
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In her memoir, aptly entitled Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist (1968), Hortense Powdermaker explored the balance of involvement and detachment necessary for participant-observer fieldwork in cultural anthropology, stressing the ability to “step in and out of society.”
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As a participant-observer of American Jewish feminism, Hyman reflects on the reasons why early goals enunciated by religiously-committed Jewish feminists in Ezrat Nashim were so readily accepted, and why later, more profound calls have met with less success.
Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America. 2009
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Maybe I'm missing something as a reluctant participant-observer, but I wonder if Jesus himself would find it hard to to tell "his" soldiers and peacemakers apart.
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An earlier generation of "naive" participant-observer books -- such as the late George Plimpton's football saga "Paper Lion" (1966) and the late John Jerome's quest to restore an old pickup in "Truck" (1977) -- dealt with ordinary men who bit off more than they could chew.
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During 1932 – 1934 she lived in the small town of Indianola, Mississippi, carrying out one of the earliest participant-observer community studies in the Deep South.
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A skeptical take on pro-China boosterism, gained through the same participant-observer techniques the author brought to his Celebration Chronicles, about Disney's Edenic planned community.
Cover to Cover 2006
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He studied them as a participant-observer, “a man among men, who took part in military expeditions, hunted big game with them, and later wrote of his experiences.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He studied them as a participant-observer, “a man among men, who took part in military expeditions, hunted big game with them, and later wrote of his experiences.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A skeptical take on pro-China boosterism, gained through the same participant-observer techniques the author brought to his Celebration Chronicles, about Disney's Edenic planned community.
Cover to Cover 2006
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