books about: ethnography     books:       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.             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 ...             You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads James P. Spradley Waveland Pr Inc, 1999 An account of the experiences of men who are repeatedly arrested for public drunkenness. This book challenges the idea that these men are simply rejects from society, who cannot organize their behavior by cultural traditions. Using the recently discovered methods of formal ethnographic analysis, the author presents this urban sub-culture as it relates to law enforcement agencies. Life in one jail is described in detail, showing how it changes ...             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 ...             Ethnography: A Way of Seeing Harry F. Wolcott Altamira Press, 2008 One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Wolcott distinguishes ethnography as more than just a set of ...             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 ...             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.             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 ...             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 ...             The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society, Second Edition David W. McCurdy, James P. Spradley, ... Waveland Press, 2004 The Cultural Experience has helped generations of undergraduates discover the excitement of ethnographic research through participation in relatively familiar cultures in North American society. Grounded in the interviewing-based ethnographic technique known as ethnosemantics, the latest edition continues to treat ethnography as a discovery process. Students are taught how to set up an ethnographic field study, choose a microculture, and find ...             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 ...             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 As A Pastoral Practice: An Introduction Mary Clark Moschella Pilgrim Press, The, 2008 Ethnography is a way to tap the deep udnercurrents in a community through a process of gathering, analyzing, and sharing data. Moschella informs clergy on how they can use it to give themselves 'ears to hear' their members own stories, deep wisdom and longing for God.             Ethnography for Marketers: A Guide to Consumer Immersion Hy Mariampolski SAGE Publications, 2005 Ethnography, with its focus on observed everyday behavior, is quickly becoming the method of choice to identify unmet needs, stimulate novel insights, create strategies and develop new ideas. Hy Mariampolski, author of Qualitative Market Research: A Comprehensive Guide (Sage, 2001) again takes readers on a voyage of discovery in Ethnography for Marketers. These two companion works are essential guides for marketers seeking rich insights into ...             Handbook of Ethnography Sage Publications Ltd, 2007 Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This Handbook provides an unparalleled critical guide to its principles and practice. The result is a landmark work in the field which draws on the expertise of an internationally renowned group of interdisciplinary scholars. The Handbook provides readers with a one-stop critical guide to the past, present and ...             Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood Helen Morton University of Hawaii Press, 1996             Direct Action: An Ethnography David Graeber AK Press, 2009 Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years—against the Summit of the Americas in Québec City. Written in a clear, accessible style (with a minimum of academic jargon), this study brings readers behind the scenes of a ...             Some observations on the ethnography and archaeology of the American aborigines Samuel George Morton Nabu Press, 2010 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed ...             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 ...              search for books aborigines, alternatives, anthropology, archaeology, childhood, conducting, connection, contemporary, cultural, designing, essentials, ethnographic, ethnography, experience, globalization, imagining, immersion, immigrant, introduction, legality, liquidated, marketers, observations, performance, practice, presenting, principles, publishing, 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 book: The Essential Bob Marley (Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab) home  impressum - about us