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      In the Field

      ALSO BY

      George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch

       Irish Travellers: The Unsettled Life

       Tasting the Good Life Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley

       The Parish behind God’s Back: The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados

      George Gmelch

       Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties

       Inside Pitch Life in Professional Baseball

       The Irish Tinkers: The Urbanization of an Itinerant People

       Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism

       Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home

      Urban Life (with P. Kupinger)

      In the Ballpark (with J. J. Weiner) The Working Lives of Baseball People

      Baseball beyond Our Borders (with D. Nathan)

      J. M. Synge in Wicklow, West Kerry & Connemara (with A. Saddlemyer)

      To Shorten the Road (with B. Kroup): Folktales from Ireland's Travelling People

      Sharon Bohn Gmelch

       Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman

       The Tlingit Encounter with Photography

       Irish Life and Traditions

       Gender on Campus

      Tourists and Tourism (with A. Kaul)

      Tinkers and Travellers (photographs by P. Langan and G. Gmelch)

      In the Field

       Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology

      George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch

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      Oakland, California

      © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Gmelch, George, author. | Gmelch, Sharon, author.

      Title: In the field : life and work in cultural anthropology / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch.

      Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017050751 (print) | LCCN 2017056498 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520964211 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520289611 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520289628 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Anthropology—Fieldwork. | Ethnology—Methodology.

      Classification: LCC GN346 (ebook) | LCC GN346 .G54 2018 (print) | DDC 306.072/3—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017050751

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      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

      1.The Fieldwork Tradition

      2.First Fieldwork: Irish Travellers

      3.Politics and Fieldwork: Nomads in English Cities

      4.Applying Anthropology in an Alaskan National Park

      5.Studying Subsistence in Sitka

      6.On the Move: Work and Mobility in Newfoundland

      7.Native Anthropology: Studying the Culture of Baseball

      8.Falling into Fieldwork in Japan

      9.Photography and Film in Ireland and Alaska

      10.Taking Students to the Field: Barbados

      11.When the Field Is a City: Hobart, Tasmania

      12.In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Students in Tanzania

      13.Fieldwork from Campus

      14.The Changing Nature of Fieldwork

       Appendix Discussion Points

       Notes

       References

       Index

      2-1.Sharon and George Gmelch in Santa Barbara, California just before leaving for fieldwork, 1971

      2-2.A typical unauthorized Traveller camp in Finglas, county Dublin

      2-3.The late-morning routine at Holylands as people mobilize for work

      2-4.Taking a lunch break on the road in county Wicklow

      2-5.Ann Maughan prepares dinner for her family

      3-1.An illegal Gypsy encampment next to St. Pancras railway station, London, 1981

      3-2.Police and county council workers enforce a Traveller eviction in Leicester

      3-3.Inside a Gypsy “flash” trailer at Appleby Horse Fair

      4-1.The Alsek River and glacier viewed from a bush plane window

      4-2.A Tlingit fisherman watches for salmon striking his gill net on the Alsek River

      4-3.A fish camp on the Alsek River

      5-1.Crescent Harbor, one of Sitka’s boat harbors

      5-2.Some of the catch from subsistence salmon fishing

      5-3.A