The use and reuse of stone circles: fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its implications

“…The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British and Irish archaeology, and for Scotland most attention has been focused on the large monuments of Orkney and the Western Isles. Several decades of fieldwork have shown how these major structures are likely to be of early date and recognized that that smaller settings of monoliths had a more extended history. …”

The Anthropological Lens: Rethinking E. E. Evans-Pritchard by Morton, C

“…This book then is just such an exploration, of Evans-Pritchard the fieldworker through the lens of his fieldwork photography. …”

The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan by Bano, M

“…The monograph draws on eighteen-month long fieldwork across eight-districts of Pakistan, covering 100 madrasas. …”

Chinese medicine in East Africa: an intimacy with strangers by Hsu, E

“…Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. …”

The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan by Bano, M

“…The monograph draws on eighteen-month long fieldwork across eight-districts of Pakistan, covering 100 madrasas. …”

Mambila divination: framing questions, constructing answers by Zeitlyn, D

“…This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked and life histories to help understand the perspective of the clients rather than that of the diviners. …”

Diasporic generations: Memory, politics, and nation among Cubans in Spain by Berg, M

“…Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the Cuban diaspora in Spain consists of three diasporic generations, generated through distinct migratory experiences. …”

Qatar: evidence of the Palaeolithic earliest people revealed by Scott-Jackson, J

“…The book synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit with the many diverse historical records and reports of investigations, beginning with Holgar Kapel’s, in the early 1950s.…”

¿Hacia una ciudad vasca? Aproximación desde la innovación social by Calzada, I

“…He carried out interviews and fieldwork research in the West of the USA (Portland, San Francisco, Seatle, Phoenix, Idaho,...) and Europe (Dublin, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Malmö, Reykjavik,...), primarily. …”

Excursions in realist anthropology: a merological approach by Zeitlyn, D

“…Given the authors’ background as anthropologists committed to fieldwork, this book provides a theoretical grounding to justify and explain the sorts of accounts that anthropologists produce as the result of ethnographic research.…”

Music and memory

“…A wide range of different studies provided by fifteen authors are arranged in the order of themes on fieldwork related issues, ethnomusicological analysis, physiological issues under different historical and educational viewpoints, composition techniques and audio technology. …”
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Gender and sexuality in India: Selling sex in Chennai by Sariola, S

“…Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it draws out themes of agency; notions of gender and sexuality; and the HIV prevention industry. …”

Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: the blame cascade by Ullrich, L

“…Drawing on critical theory, criminological analysis, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in The Hague, Kenya, and Uganda, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court provides an in-depth socio-legal analysis of a key international justice institution. …”

New cities in Late Antiquity: Documents and archaeology

“…Based on recent archaeological fieldwork and synthetic studies, twenty papers outline the state of research and discuss the motives and products of city-building from the late third to the seventh centuries AD.…”

Religion or belief, discrimination and equality: Britain in global contexts by Weller, P, Purdam, K, Ghanea, N, Cheruvallil-Contractor, S

“…It includes data and insights derived from the fieldwork, focus groups and questionnaire survey of a recent national research project in Britain. …”

Japan's emerging youth policy: getting young adults back to work by Toivonen, T

“…</p> <p>Based on extensive fieldwork that draws on both sociological and policy science approaches, this book will be welcomed by students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of Japanese and East Asian studies, comparative social policy, youth sociology, the sociology of social problems and social work.…”

Maoist people's war and the revolution of everyday life in Nepal by Zharkevich, I

“…Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people in the former Maoist heartland, including both committed Maoist revolutionaries and ‘reluctant rebels’, it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war, how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life during war. …”