The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork: Muddy Boots and Grubby Hands

by Maurice Punch

Book Overview

Sustained, intensive fieldwork involves the negotiation of trust between the researcher and the researched. In The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork , Maurice Punch catalogues and illustrates occasions of trust-making and breaking among the many parties who are actively engaged in a research project. This is not, however, a dry listing of dos and donts. Professor Punch has provided a vivid, witty, sometimes ironic presentation packed with lively personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803925174
• ISBN13: 9780803925175
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.