CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
SERIES EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ix
VOLUME EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: THE
DIVERSITY OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
IN EUROPE xi
‘YOU ARE NOT FROM AROUND HERE, ARE YOU’:
GETTING OTHERED IN PARTICIPANT
OBSERVATION
Danielle Chevalier 1
KNOWLEDGE-MAKING AND ITS POLITICS IN
CONFLICT REGIONS: DOING RESEARCH IN ISRAEL/
PALESTINE
Christine Leuenberger 19
AN OBSERVATION SITUATION: WHEN THE
RESEARCHER’S SCENES INTERACT
Caroline De Man 43
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: NOT GETTING
EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED IN RESEARCH AMONG
VULNERABLE YOUTH IN SOUTH AFRICA
Diana van Dijk 61
DEEPER PLAY: GEERTZ’S “THICK DESCRIPTION”
AND A BALINESE TEMPLE RITUAL (THEODALAN)
J. I. (Hans) Bakker 79
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