books about: ethnographies     books:       Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network (Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in ... Ruth Gomberg-Munoz Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 Winner of the 2011 ALLA Book Award honorable mention! Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work as busboys at a Chicago-area restaurant. Ruth Gomberg-Mu�oz introduces readers to the Lions, ten friends from Mexico committed to improving their fortunes and the lives of their families. Set in and around "Il Vino," a restaurant that could stand in for many places ...             Ethnography: Step-by-Step (Applied Social Research Methods) David M. Fetterman Sage Publications, Inc, 2009 “Emphasis on the use of theory as a guide is excellent and cannot be stressed enough among students . . . . Ethical standards are comprehensively addressed. Any doubts the reader may have had are dispelled by the author’s compelling arguments and illustrative examples.” -Patricia I. Documét, University of Pittsburgh “The text has included most topics that I cover in my seminar with doctoral students and some that believe they ...             Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Anchor, 1995 A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.             Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance D. Soyini Madison Sage Publications, Inc, 2011 The revised Second Edition of Critical Ethnography guides readers through theories, methods, and ethics of ethnographic research creating a confidence to complete fieldwork while demonstrating analytical and theoretical depth. This text highlights the productive links between theory and method and how both become more valuable as they interact through fieldwork. Theoretical concepts range from queer theory, feminist theory, and critical race ...             Ethnography Essentials: Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research (Research Methods for the Social ... Julian Murchison Jossey-Bass, 2010 A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing and proposing a topic and selecting a research design. It describes methods of data collection (taking notes, participant observation, interviewing, identifying themes and issues, creating ethnographic maps and tables and charts, and referring to secondary sources) and analyzing and writing ...             Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters David A. Westbrook University Of Chicago Press, 2008 As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist—ethnography—can still function as an ...             Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) Karen Ho Duke University Press Books, 2009 Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated , Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ...             Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and ... John Van Maanen University Of Chicago Press, 2011 For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen’s Tales of the Field has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail and critically analyze the various styles and narrative conventions associated with written representations of culture. This is a book about the deskwork of fieldwork and the various ways culture ...             Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Princeton University Press, 2004 A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse ...             Field Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology Paul Kutsche Prentice Hall, 1997 For undergraduate-level courses in Ethnographic Field Methods and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Unlike other ethnographic field manuals -- which are either written for the graduate or professional levels or are narrowly restrictive in their methodological approach -- this manual focuses specifically on the needs of introductory-level students. It takes them by the hand and leads them step-by-step through the entire process -- through ...             Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research Northeastern, 1998 The candid, first-person accounts of their experiences, especially in illegal, immoral, and dangerous situations, reveal the horrors, perils, and joys of ethnographic research. The methodological, theoretical, and political implications of field work are also thoroughly discussed. Describing their deep involvement with such diverse groups as skinheads, phone sex workers, drug dealers, graffiti artists, and the homeless, many of the authors ...             Doing Visual Ethnography Sarah Pink Sage Publications Ltd, 2006 Following the success of the First Edition , this fully revised and updated Second Edition of Doing Visual Ethnography explores the use and potential of photography, video, and hypermedia in ethnographic and social research. It offers a reflexive approach to theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical issues of using these media now that they are increasingly being incorporated into field research. Author Sarah Pink adopts the ...             Doing Sensory Ethnography Sarah Pink Sage Publications Ltd, 2009 In this important and groundbreaking book, Sarah Pink suggests re-thinking the ethnographic process through reflexive attention to what she terms the 'sensoriality' of the experience, practice, and knowledge of both researchers and those who participate in their research. The book provides an accessible analysis of the theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of doing sensory ethnography, drawing on examples and case studies from the ...             Ethnography: Principles in Practice Martyn Hammersley, Paul Atkinson Routledge, 2007 Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software and the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive ...             Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People Thomas A. Abercrombie University of Wisconsin Press, 1998      Pathways of Memory and Power crosses the disciplinary boundary where anthropology and history meet, exploring the cultural frontier of the colonial and postcolonial Andes. Thomas A. Abercrombie uses his fieldwork in the Aymara community of Santa Barbara de Culta, Bolivia, as a starting point for his ambitious examination of the relations between European forms of historical consciousness and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the ...             Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social (Explorations in Anthropology) Deborah Reed-Danahay Berg Publishers, 1997 In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study 'others' ethnographically, this timely book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and those 'others' who are studied. Informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contribution to the growing dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. The chapters build upon recent reconsiderations of the ...             Writing the New Ethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives) H. L., Jr. Goodall Altamira Press, 2000 Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences. Goodall's distinctive style will engage and energize students, offering them provocative advice and exercises for turning qualitative data and field notes into compelling representations of social life.             Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change Duke University Press Books, 2002 Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation—in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and ...             Ethnography and Language in Educational Settings: (Advances in Discourse Processes) Praeger, 1981             Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category David Valentine Duke University Press Books, 2007 Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ...              search for books alternatives, anthropology, conducting, connection, contemporary, cultural, designing, deviance, discourse, educational, essentials, ethnographic, ethnography, explorations, franklin, globalization, imagining, immigrant, liquidated, navigators, performance, political, practice, presenting, principles, processes, publishing, rewriting, step-by-step, transgender books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen magazines: Verve - India home  impressum - about us