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Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (88 Edition)
by James Clifford  Publisher Comments The Predicament of Cultureis a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative...
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Writing Culture : the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (86 Edition)
by James (ed.) Clifford Publisher Comments The poetics and politics of ethnography....
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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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Ethnography Through Thick and Thin
by George Marcus Publisher Comments In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography through Thick and Thin updates and advances that critique...
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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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Research Methods in Anthropology 4TH Edition
by H Russell Bernard Synopsis Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernards unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a...
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Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology
by H. Russell Bernard Book News Annotation Anthropologists, sociologists, and other specialists draw upon both the scientific and humanistic elements of anthropology to define and describe fieldwork in practice. This book examines methods of investigation such as traditional participant...
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Translating Tradition (a Longman Topics Reader) (Longman Topics)
by Karen E Beardslee Synopsis Part of the Longman Topicsreader series, Translating Tradition examines how we engage in traditions as family and community members to connect with past, negotiate the present, and envision the future. KEY TOPICS: This brief collection of readings...
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Ethnographic Film
by Karl G Heider Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition: Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists.--ChoiceThis is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for...
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Robert M Emerson Publisher Comments In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based. Drawing on years of teaching and field research...
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Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative
by Patricia K Galloway Publisher Comments Practicing Ethnohistory is a compendium of twenty-one essays on ethnohistorical historiography. The essays, preceded by a contextualizing introduction, are organized under four topical heads: textual historiography, positive analytic methods using...
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Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text & Interaction
by David Silverman Publisher Comments David Silverman is, without doubt, one of the most challenging, demanding writers on qualitative research. . . . For all nurses who are considering, planning, or currently working on qualitative research studies, this book will prove indispensable...
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Research Methods in Anthropology 2ND Edition
by H Russell Bernard Publisher Comments The first edition of Research Methods in Anthropology represented the first major anthropology methods text in more than a decade. It received worldwide acclaim for its comprehensiveness, its balance of both qualitative and quantitative methods, its...
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One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology (Halle Lectures)
by Fredrik Barth Publisher Comments One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology-British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth...
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The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology (Contemporary Ethnography Series)
by Paul Stoller Synopsis "An ingeniously constructed springboard for a criticism of anthropology."--...
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Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field
by Jean Guy Goulet Publisher Comments What happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous agendas and are forced to confront radically unexpected or unexplained experiences? In Extraordinary...
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What's Wrong with Ethnography?
by Martyn Hammersley Synopsis This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. ""What's Wrong With Ethnography" provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of...
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Anthropology As Cultural Critique: an Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
by George E. Marcus Publisher Comments Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and...
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Art of Fieldwork 2ND Edition
by Harry F Wolcott Synopsis In this long-anticipated second edition of The Art of Fieldwork, prominent anthropologist Harry F. Wolcott updates his original groundbreaking text, which both challenges and petitions anthropology and its practitioners to draw not only on the...
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Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method
by John Jr Collier Publisher Comments This book provides reliable research methods from the systematic gathering of data through analysis of photographic records to transfer of insights to ethnographic records, with an emphasis on developing the skills of thorough observation rather than on...
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