Author: Rob Drew
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: ethnographic, alternatives, rhapsody, karaoke, nights
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0759100470
ISBN-13: 9780759100473

Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions-possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when the Japanese craze had only recently arrived in the U.S., Rob Drew was drawn to the phenomenon as subject of research. What he discovered will fascinate and surprise you, whether you’re a student of popular culture or just curious what’s going to happen next Saturday when you get up to sing your first song at the corner bar. "Karaoke NIghts" is both a keen observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an i

Author: Carolyn Ellis
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: ethnographic, book, series, alternatives, autoethnography, methodological, novel
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-12-27
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0759100519
ISBN-13: 9780759100510

Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of autoethnography, weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional graduate course she instructs. Through Ellis’s interactions with her students, you are given useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this intimate form of research.

Author: Michael V. Angrosino
Publisher: AltaMira Pre
Keywords: ethnographic, alternatives, book, retardation, series, mental, house, stories, opportunity
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1997-12-02
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 076198917X
ISBN-13: 9780761989172

Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V. Angrosino’s riveting and de-mystifying account offers an insider’s picture of the lives of the inhabitants of Opportunity House. Using the narrative device of a dozen fictional short stories told in the voices of various community members as well as that of the researcher, Angrosino weaves a life-histories approach to ethnography together with an innovative culture concept to tackle the complexities of representing marginalized subgroups. As opposed to traditional c

Authors:Joao Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: subjectivity, ethnographic, studies, investigations
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2007-04-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520247930
ISBN-13: 9780520247932

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 what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one h

Author: Harry G. West
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: sorcery, ethnographic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0226893987
ISBN-13: 9780226893983

According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery—for many of them, West’s efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In Ethnographic Sorcery, West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation.A key theme of West’s research into sorcery is that one sorcerer’s claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers.

Author: Karl G. Heider
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: film, ethnographic
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292714580
ISBN-13: 9780292714588

From reviews of the first edition: "Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists." -Choice "This is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for the better. It obviously belongs in all departments of anthropology, and most ethnographic filmmakers will want to read it." -Ethnohistory Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and te

Author: Paul Willis
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: imagination, ethnographic
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-12-07
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 074560174X
ISBN-13: 9780745601748

In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines. Drawing from numerous examples of his own past and current work, he shows that ethnographic practice and the ethnographic imagination are vital to understanding the creativity and irreducibility of experience in all aspects of social and cultural practice. Willis argues that ethnography plays a vital role in constituting ’sensuousness’ in textual, methodological, and substantive ways, but it can do this only through the deployment o