The book is useful in that it presents a wide range of methodological problems and possibilities within two covers....An undoubted strength is that this book takes seriously the fact that anthropology no longer solely builds upon ethnographic studies of small-scale societies. While participant observation is likely to remain a core method, there is a growing need for supplementary methods, many of which are instructively outlined here.

Journal of Peace Research

The contributors have two things in common: Faith in the importance of the ethnographic enterprise, and they have put substantial effort into their respective papers.... Extensive, up-to-date, reference section.... This book is a valuable resource for any social scientist preparing to do research.

Victor C. de Munck, Vilnius University and State University of New York at New Paltz, American Anthropologist

The Handbook contains a wealth of information and will be useful for any social scientist engaged in fieldwork. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

L. Joseph, (North Dakota State University), Choice Reviews

Bernard...avoids the well-known tendency to polarize along dichotomous, thematic and disciplinary lines... the book was deasigned to be useful for scholars from other disciplines as well... it is a book to have on the shelf, next to the dictionaries, to consult whenever the need arises...Its eclectic perspective is a guarantee that any reader will find his or her interests addressed.

Andre Droogers, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Anthropological Theory

Authoritative text on the methods of anthropological research over the last century.<...gets down to practical matters of the systematic collecting and interpreting of information on human behavior in its natural settings. Russel (Florida) has assembled27 experts on fieldwork in anthropology who explain the principles behind their researches and carefully outline the ways in which they go about applying them....

Geolinguistics

Authoritative text on the methods of anthropological research over the last century.<...gets down to practical matters of the systematic collecting and interpreting of information on human behavior in its natural settings. Russel (Florida) has assembled 27 experts on fieldwork in anthropology who explain the principles behind their researches and carefully outline the ways in which they go about applying them.

Geolinguistics