Author: Paul Atkinson
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: ethnography, complexity, complex, culture, contours
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-12-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0759107068
ISBN-13: 9780759107069

In Contours of Culture the authors address practical and theoretical problems of using ethnographic methods in the study of culture, drawing on their field research with an opera company, Welsh artists, and classes on a popular Brazilian martial art.

Author: Edmund Leach
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, routledge, myth, structural, study, totemism
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0415330726
ISBN-13: 9780415330725

Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d’Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss’s shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Lévi-Strauss’s treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First publishe

Author: Arnold van Gennep
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, passage, rites, routledge
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 0415330238
ISBN-13: 9780415330237

Van Gennep was the first observer of human behaviour to note that the ritual ceremonies that accompany the landmarks of human life differ only in detail from one culture to another, and that they are in essence universal. Originally published in English in 1960. This edition reprints the paperback edition of 1977.

Author: Philip Mayer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, routledge, approach, socialization, social
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 041533036X
ISBN-13: 9780415330367

This volume represents the first major effort to apply the distinctive techniques of British social anthropology to the subject of socialization. Along with methodological and theoretical discussion, there is a variety of new field material from Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere. First published in 1967.

Author: I.M. Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, social, history, routledge
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-06-23
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 0415330335
ISBN-13: 9780415330336

Examining the ways in which social anthropologists might gain from and contribute to, historical studies this volume contains papers on historical studies by anthropologists on 19th century Nupe, Yoruba and Benin and 17th century Cameroons in West Africa; on the succession in kingship in Buganda; and on the development of national politics in Albania. First published in 1968.

Authors:B. Jeffrey, G. Walfor G. Troman, Geoff Troman, Bob J
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: educational, ethnography, studies, institutions, agency, social, identity
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0762311444
ISBN-13: 9780762311446

The prime focus on the social processes of schooling within educational ethnography has tended to marginalise or eschew the importance of other ’informal’ educational sites. Other social institutions, such as family, community, media and popular culture, work and prisons are salient arenas in which behaviours and lives are regulated. They all interrelate and are all implicated in the generation, management and development of social identities and the social and cultural reproduction of structures and relations. Individuals, though, are not merely shaped by these social institutions

Author: H. L. (Bud) Goodall
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: ethnography, new, writing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-01-19
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0742503399
ISBN-13: 9780742503397

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.