1 Approaches to Field Research Section One: Starting Field Research 2 Early
Field Experiences 3 Procedures for Demarcating a Field of Study 4
Methodological Issues in the Study of Bureaucratic Elites: A Case Study of
West Point 5 Launching a Neighbourhood Study in an African Town Section
Two: Field Roles and Field Problems 6 Some Role Problems in Field Research
7 Participant Observers 8 The Participant Observer as a Human Being:
Observations on the Personal Aspects of Fieldwork 9 The Making of a Female
Researcher: Role Problems in Fieldwork 10 The Problem of Ethical Integrity
in Participant Observation Section Three: Sampling Strategies in Field
Research 11 Elements of Sampling in Field Research 12 Sampling in
Ethnographic Fieldwork 13 Time Sampling as a Field Technique 14 The Key
Informant Technique: A Non-Ethnographic Application Section Four:
Conversations in Field Research 15 The Unstructured Interview as a
Conversation 16 Interviewing in Field Research 17 The Life Study: On Mutual
Recognition and the Subjective Inquiry Section Five: Historical Sources and
Field Research 18 Personal Documents, Oral Sources and Life Histories 19
Local History and Oral History 20 The Study of Life History 21 Anthropology
and the Discipline of Historical Context
