Fieldwork deals with the practical, mechanical, ethical, and theoretical aspects of collecting data. Jackson discusses how fieldworkers define their role, how they relate to others in the field, and how they go about recording for later use what occurred in their presence. This treatment offers an abundance of useful information to those who do folklore fieldwork as well as those who work in any of the other social sciences or humanities. An appendix relates the author's own experiences while documenting Texas's death row.
- ISBN10 0252013700
- ISBN13 9780252013706
- Publish Date 1 February 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 311
- Language English