Coming to terms: Reinserting research assistants into ethnography’s past and present

Ethnography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 279-290

  Middleton, Townsend ^a   Cons, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics; fieldwork; methods; reflexivity; research assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907214008     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138114533466     Document Type: Editorial

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