Research Catalog

Title

Doing cultural anthropology : projects for ethnographic data collection / Michael V. Angrosino [editor].

Publication

Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Angrosino, Michael V.

Description

ix, 180 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Students better understand ethnographic methods through experience rather than lecture. This theme of learning-by-doing permeates throughout Doing Cultural Anthropology. Each chapter in this outstanding collection covers the fundamentals of a different data-collection technique. In addition to providing an overview of a particular technique, each author describes his or her own research project utilizing that technique. Readers are then provided with a project at the end of each chapter, promoting hands-on exposure to what ethnographers actually do. The chapters are not written as scholarly treatises; instead they give readers just enough information to appreciate the techniques and to practice it for themselves. Readers of all levels and from any discipline that uses ethnography will benefit from the clear, accessible style."--Back cover.

Subject

• Ethnology > Methodology
• Ethnology > Field work > Methodology
• Ethnologie > Méthodologie
• Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain > Méthodologie
• Ethnology > Fieldwork > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Becoming a participant observer / Gerry Tierney -- Exploring genealogy / Constance P. deRoche -- Conducting a life history interview / Michael V. Angrosino -- Analyzing narrative data / Nancy Redfern-Vance -- Reconstructing a community through archival research / Cheryl Rodriguez & Yvette Baber -- Using a museum as a resource for ethnographic research / Serena Nanda -- Learning about formal organizations / V. Richard Persico, Jr. -- Free-listing vocabulary / J. Jerome Smith -- Observing a workplace / Kathrynn Borman ... [et al.] -- Carrying out a structured observation / Laurie J. Price -- Designing a questionnaire for cross-cultural research / Roberta D. Baer & Susan C. Weller -- Working with numerical data / Martha W. Rees -- Constructing a virtual ethnography / S. Elizabeth Bird & Jessica Barber -- Developing an electronic ethnography / Alvin W. Wolfe & Guy Hagen -- Composing autoethnographic stories / Leigh Berger & Carolyn Ellis -- Participating in an ethnographic field school / James M. Tim Wallace.

ISBN

1577662083

LCCN

^^2002277259

OCLC

• 48496028
• SCSB-10043721

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library