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Bibliography on International Fieldwork
(From Barrett and Cason 1997 “Overseas Research”)

General Fieldwork Issues
Barley, N. 1983. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut. New York: Penguin.
Barnes, J.A. 1977. The Ethics of Inquiry in Social Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Barret, C.B., and J.W. Cason. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide. Baltimore, M.D.: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Bernard, H. R. 1995. Research methods in anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative approaches. Second Edition. London: Altamira Press.
Burgess, R.G. 1984. In the Field: An Introduction to Field Research. Boston: George Allen & Unwin.
Devereaux, S, and J. Hoddinott, eds. 1993. Fieldwork in Developing Countries. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Golden, M.P., ed. 1976. The Research Experience. Ithaca, Ill: F.E. Peacock.
Smith, C.D., and W. Kornblum, eds. 1989. In the Field: Readings on the Field Research Experience. New York: Praeger.

Case Study Research and Comparative Method
Dogan, M., and D. Pelassy. 1984. How to Compare Nations: Strategies in Comparative Politics. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House Publishers.
Eckstein, H. 1975. Case study and theory in political science. In F.I. Greenstein and N.W. Polsby, eds. Strategies of Inquiry. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Lieberson, S. 1991. Small N’s and big conclusions: an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small N of cases. Social Forces 70: 307-20.
Lijphart, A. 1975. The comparable-cases strategy in comparative research. Comparative Political Studies 8: 158-77.
Ragin, C. 1987. The Comparative Method. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yin, R.K. 1988. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.

Ethnographic Methods and Research on Human Subjects
Agar, M. 1980. The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography. New York: Academic Press.
Barley, N. 1983. The Innocent Anthropologist. London: British Museum Publications.
Bartis, P. 1990. Folklife and Fieldwork: A Layman’s Introduction to Field Techniques, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
Burgess, R., ed. 1982. Field Research: A Source Book and Field Manual. New York: Routledge Chapman and Hall.
Douglas, J.D. 1985. Creative Interviewing. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Ellen, R.F. 1984. Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. New York: Academic Press.
Emerson, R.M., R.I. Fretz, and L.L. Shaw. 1995. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Golde, P., ed. 1986. Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences, 2d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hammersley, M. 1995. Ethnography: Principles in Practice. 2d ed. London and New York: Routledge.
Jorgensen, D.L. 1989. Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Punch, M. 1986. The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Sanjek, R. 1990. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Quantitative Methods
Agresti, A., and B. Finlay. 1986. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Riverside, N.J.: Dellen/Macmillan Publishing.
Bernard, H. R. 1995. Research methods in anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative approaches. Second Edition. London: Altamira Press.
Casley, D.J., and D.A. Lury. 1981. Data Collection in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ethridge, D. 1995. Research Methodology in Applied Economics: Understanding, Planning, and Conducting Economic Research. Ames: Iowa State University Press.
Gebremedhin, T.G. and L.G. Tweeten. 1994. Research Methods and Communication in the Social Sciences. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
Johnson, A.C., Jr. and J.S. Rowe. 1987. Agricultural Statistics for Developing Countries. Madison: University of Wisconsin.
Kalton, G. 1986. Introduction to Survey Sampling. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Nachmias, D. and C. Nachmias. 1987. Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 3d. ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Neuman, W.L. 1994. Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Sudman, S. and N.M. Bradburn. 1982. Asking Questions: A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Design. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Weisberg, H. and B.D. Bowen. 1977. An Introduction to Survey Research and Data Analysis. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.

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