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This chapter discusses the approach taken to complete this study, including collection and analysis methods, field settings, respondents, and efforts at getting in. Data is the result of observation, participation, and interviews with scrappers and metal thieves, conducted in the field. Analysis of the data is completed with content analysis via a social anthropological approach. This method helps identify and explain the way people operate in particular settings and how they understand, make sense of, respond to, and function in their day-to-day life. Essential to any field study is the process of getting in, or gaining access to a setting and the participants who are being observed. This chapter provides examples of establishing rapport and trust among guides, gatekeepers, scrappers, and thieves.
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Stickle, B.F. (2017). Approach. In: Metal Scrappers and Thieves. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57502-5_2
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