Out in the Field

"Definitive and well-rounded. . . . Explores how anthropologists

        manage issues of identity and sexuality in field research and professional

        life. In an era when the field worker's positionality is critical to research

        and ethnographic writing, this insightful book has much to say to gay

        and straight researchers alike." -- Louise Lamphere, University of

        New Mexico

      "Addresses sensitive, controversial, and tabooed subjects. . . .

        Out in the Field will be read by a variety of audiences, within

        and outside of anthropology." -- Jean Jackson, Massachusetts Institute

        of Technology

      Lesbian and gay anthropologists write candidly in Out in the Field

        about their research and personal experiences in conducting fieldwork,

        about the ethical and intellectual dilemmas they face in writing about

        lesbian or gay populations, and about the impact on their careers of doing

        lesbian/gay research.

      The first volume in which lesbian and gay anthropologists discuss personal

        experiences, Out in the Field offers compelling illustrations of

        professional lives both closeted and out to colleagues and fieldwork informants.

        It also concerns aligning career goals with personal sexual preferences

        and speaks directly to issues of representation and authority currently

        being explored throughout the social sciences.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Geoffrey Burkhart, Liz Goodman, Delores M. Walters, Walter

        L. Williams, Sabine Lang, Ellen Lewin, William L. Leap, Ralph Bolton,

        Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline Davis, Will Roscoe, Esther Newton,

        Stephen O. Murray, James Wafer, Kath Weston, Sue-Ellen Jacobs