1st Edition

An Autopsy of Ethnographic Fieldwork An Introspective Look into Qualitative Research Experiences

Edited By Louis Augustin-Jean Copyright 2025
222 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalising the process of adaptation, modification, and even failure during fieldwork when circumstances interrupt the expected outcomes. This book aims to address a gap often found in methodology books by including nine full autopsy-like reflection of... Read more

1: An Introspective Look into Qualitative Research Experiences

Louis Augustin-Jean

2: To be there for what? Reflections on fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans

Nicolas Larchet

3: Mistaken assumptions, minority approach’s gatekeepers and unexpected developments: reflections on a fieldwork about Japanese saké

Nicolas Baumert

4: Mosaic ethnography: Blended lives between online and offline China

David Kurt Herold

5: An Expanding Fieldwork or When a Small Idea Becomes Larger than Anticipated: Studying Chinese New Year Red Packets

Louis Augustin-Jean and Vandana Saxena

6: From localized to globalized markets: change in doing fieldwork in a port city

Arnaud Le Marchand

7: A Case Study of families living “in between” Mexico and the US: discussing epistemologies and methodologies from a transnational perspective.

Javiera Cienfuegos-Illanes

8: The politics of communicating with the Indigenous people in Sarawak

Welyne Jeffrey Jehom

9: How? - Participatory action research with a low-income community

Márton Gosztonyi

10: Alone, in Pairs, as a Team: Reflections on a Mixed-Methods Approach to the Gender of Capital

Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac

11: Fieldwork Perspectives: from Autopsy to Biopsy

Louis Augustin-Jean and Nicolas Larchet

Biography

Louis Augustin-Jean is Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Development Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia.