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Analyzing Ethnographic Data
by Margaret D Lecompte  Publisher Comments Book Five of the Ethnographer's Toolkit series provides the reader with a variety of methods for transforming piles of fieldnotes, observations, audio and videotapes, questionnaires, surveys, documents, maps, and other kinds of data into research results...
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Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge
by Annelise Riles Publisher Comments Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher. Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the...
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New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
by Linda Stone Publisher Comments Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The...
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Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives
by Johan Pottier Publisher Comments Throughout the last decade, there has been a demand for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programs. Much of this pressure has come from internationally renowned development...
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Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist
by Hortens Powdermaker Publisher Comments 'Stranger and Friend is a passionate plea for anthropology as a human discipline as well as a science, as an all-engrossing life experience as well as a profession, and increasingly as a subject in the curriculum of graduate and undergraduate studies.' --...
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Journeys to the Edge: In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist
by Peter M Gardner Book News Annotation Anthropologist Gardner recounts his adventures conducting fieldwork around the world in this memoir written for a general audience. His account ranges from hunting with First Nations people in Canada's northern forest to exploring the urban cultures...
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Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography
by John Van Maanen Publisher Comments Once upon a time ethnographers returning from the field simply sat down, shuffled their note cards, and wrote up their descriptions of the exotic and quaint customs they had observed. Today scholars in all disciplines are realizing how their research is...
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The Voice of the Mountains: Radio and Anthropology
by Alan Oconnor Publisher Comments Using tape recordings, videos, and the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams, this work examines the uses of radio for development, the impact on oral culture, and the use of radio by indigenous people in Ecuador and miners in Bolivia. Few...
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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist...
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The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology
by Anna Grimshaw Publisher Comments Grimshaw discusses issues of vision in anthropology, considering some key figures throughout the twentieth century....
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How to Read Ethnography
by Huon Wardle Publisher Comments This book provides a gateway to anthropological thought and knowledge by teaching the essential skill of reading and interpreting ethnography. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, the book shows how to understand and evaluate...
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The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Luke E Lassiter Publisher Comments Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly, collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collaboration now...
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Enhanced Ethnographic Methods: Audiovisual Techniques, Focused Group Interviews, & Elicitation Techniques
by Jean J Schensul Publisher Comments In addition to the traditional use of participant observation, interviews, and surveys, qualitative researchers have developed a variety of other methods to obtain information in their studies. Visual data from film and still photographs are now...
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Tape Recorded Interview 2nd Ed: Manual Field Workers Folklore Oral History
by Edward D Ives Publisher Comments Since 1980, The Tape-Recorded Interview has been an essential resource for folklorists and oral historians - indeed, for anyone who uses a tape recorder in field research. When this book was first published, the reel-to-reel recorder was the favored...
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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments Rarely have anthropologists regarded fieldwork as a serious object of study, although it is tacitly accepted as their major activity. How valid is the process? To what extent are the cultural data an artifact of the interaction between anthropologist and...
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Asa Monographs #34: After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
by Allison James Publisher Comments Anthropologists now openly acknowledge that social anthropology can no longer fulfill its traditional aim of providing holistic, objective representations of people of "exotic" cultures. "After Writing Culture" asks what theoretical and practical role...
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Doing Fieldwork (Ppr)
by Robert A Rubinstein Publisher Comments Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research...
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Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
by George Stockings Publisher Comments History of Anthropology is a new series of annual volumes, each of which will treat an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. For this initial volume, the editors have chosen to focus on the modern cultural anthropology: intensive...
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Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology
by Daniel Alan Segal Publisher Comments Lively, forceful, and impassioned, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle is a major intervention in debates about the configuration of the discipline of anthropology. In the essays brought together in this provocative collection, prominent anthropologists...
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Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?
by Phyllis M Messenger Publisher Comments The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has brought into sharp relief the conflicts among public and private collectors, scholars, and indigenous peoples over the provenience and disposition of cultural property, especially...
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