The fieldworker and the field : problems and challenges in sociological investigation / edited by M.N. Srinivas, A.M. Shah & E.A. Ramaswamy.

Rural India The fieldworker and the field : a village in Karnataka / Studying the present and the past : a village in Gujarat / Experiences of an encapsulated observer : a village in Rajasthan / On tracks and tracts in my fieldwork : rural Kerala / Fieldwork experience : relived and reconsidered : rural Uttar Pradesh / Travails of a woman fieldworker : a small town in Uttar Pradesh / A woman's encounter with Arya Samaj and untouchables : a slum in Jullundur / The bottom view up : some cognitive categories : slums in Madras / Objective appreciation through subjective involvement : a slum in Kanpur / Making my way through caste images : untouchables in Poona / Trial and error in a new field : a factory in Gujarat / Being where the action was : trade unions in Coimbatore / Walking on the edge of factionalism : an industrial co-operative in rural Maharashtra / Varied roles in the field : a hospital in Delhi / An apprenticeship marked by frustrations : college students in Mysore / Selecting a 'representative' village : a village in Japan / The anthropologist-informant relationship : the Navajo and Zuni in America and the Tharu in India / Problems of entry : Sri Lanka, Zambia and Australia /

With special reference to India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

M.N. Srinivas -- A.M. Shah -- Anand Chakravarti -- K. Raman Unni -- P.C. Joshi --Urban India Khadija A. Gupta -- Veena Dua -- Beba D. Varadachar -- Maren Bellwinkel -- Sunanda Patwardhan --Complex organizations in India N.R. Sheth -- E.A. Ramaswamy -- B.S. Baviskar -- Aneeta A. Minocha -- Chitra Sivakumar --Societies outside India S. Seshaiah -- Triloki Nath Pandey -- R. Jayaraman.