"A treasure trove of fieldwork experience! Where was this book when I was trying to uncover the mysteries of ethnography? If the devil is in the details, then the Gmelches have banished him with a richly woven tapestry of insights into the questions that we all are plagued with when doing fieldwork."--Alan Klein, author of
Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice "There is no better review for students of anthropology of the travails and exhilaration of ethnographic fieldwork than this examination of over forty years of their research by the indomitable and inexhaustible Gmelches. Whether with students or on their own, from Ireland to the Caribbean, Tanzania to Tasmania, Sitka to Napa Valley, among urban nomads, dockworkers, migrants and baseball players, George and Sharon Bohn Gmelch show how ethnography as method and methodology has been transformed as anthropology has matured, diversified, and expanded. I envy all those students who had a chance to learn about anthro
