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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, ...
University Of Chicago Press, 1995
An Excellent Resource
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw have put together not only an excellent handbook for writing ethnographic fieldnotes, but an insightful study of the practical issues confronting anyone doing interpretative writing about culture.
The book's primary focus is on how to ...
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Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)
University of California Press, 2007
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider ...
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Transforming Emotions With Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China (Suny Series in ...
Yanhua Zhang
State University of New York Press, 2007
Explores how Chinese medicine deals with emotional disorders.
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Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research (Ethnographer's Toolkit , Vol 1)
LeCompte Margaret Diane
AltaMira Press, 1999
To The Point Skills Teaching
This text provides an excellent overview of the processes and considerations in good ethnographic research. Chapter 1 provides a discussion that introduces the reader to the term ethnography. Those who assume that they already know about ethnography may also want to ...
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The Ethnographic Interview
James P. Spradley
Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1979
A great step-by-step guide to ethnographic interviews
This is a great step-by-step guide to the theory and practice of ethnography. Provides the theoretical rationale for why ethnography is structured as it is. It is most unique for the well thought out, structured approach to interviewing. Identifies how different ...
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The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach
Daniel Miller, Don Slater
Berg Publishers, 2001
The best of academic thinking
"The Internet: an Ethnographic Approach" represents the very best of academic thinking and theorizing on the subject of the 'internet'. Miller and Slater provide us with a remarkable perspective on the ways in which real people, in this case Trinidadians (at home and ...
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
Margery Wolf
Stanford University Press, 1992
Academically sensitive approach is thought-provoking
Wolfe takes a very sensitive approach having put thought of the highest anthropological calibur into the meaning of this ethnography and the meanings of ethnographies as a whole. The author's focuses include systems of power differential, voice and inclusion. ...
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Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools : An Ethnographic Portrait
Guadalupe Valdes
Teachers College Press, 1996
Pleased
I was very please with the condition and the speed of delivery. The book arrived before it was due.
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Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires: Observations, Interviews, and ...
Stephen L. Schensul
AltaMira Press, 1999
Ethnographer in training Review
Over all, the book is well laid out, and the information is quite accessible. Example numbers and graphics set off the numerous case studies. Key points are given in italics and indicated with a graphic in the margin, where the reader will also find critical ...
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Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach
Dell Hymes
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974
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Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution
Donald L. Donham
University of California Press, 1999
Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia--conducted over a twenty-year period-- Marxist Modern provides a cultural ...
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Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Culture and Society After ...
Francine Hirsch
Cornell University Press, 2005
A good addition
There has been much new scholarship on the Soviet 'Empire' in Central Asia in recent years. This book builds on others such as 'State of Nations', 'Vieled Empire' and 'Affirmitive Action Empire' to explain how Soviet ethnographers tried to shape the new Russian state. ...
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The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series)
Carolyn Ellis
AltaMira Press, 2004
"I" recommend this book completely.
This is a fascinating read -- methodological theory presented in the form of a novel, a college prof teaching a class on a fairly new, "post-postmodern" form of reflexive qualitative writing, auto/ethnography. Could be seen as the manifesto for the sub-genre. ...
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Cloth and Human Experience (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
Smithsonian, 1991
Excellent for general interest and teaching
The essays in this book are fascinating and demonstrate compelling links that fabrics play in larger cultural realms. A few of the essays in this collection have been required reading for my undergraduate (and even high school) Fibers and Weaving classes for years.
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Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Dartmouth, 2001
Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. He wrote voluminously about his travels and observations, as did others. Stefansson's fame was partly fueled by a series of controversies involving envious competitors in the race for public recognition. While ...
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