Going Back and Giving Back: The Ethics of Staying in the Field

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-496

  Rupp, Leila J ^a   Taylor, Verta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Ethnography; Fieldwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051544401     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-011-9200-6     Document Type: Article

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