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Author : Hugo Schuchardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897200042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ethnography of Variation written by Hugo Schuchardt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Corey M. Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019060848X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Case written by Corey M. Abramson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic approaches. In Beyond the Case, Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong have gathered together several experts in field research to address these issues by showing how practitioners employing contemporary iterations of ethnographic traditions such as phenomenology, grounded theory, positivism, and interpretivism, use comparison in their works. The contributors connect the long history of comparative (and anti-comparative) ethnographic approaches to their contemporary uses. By honing in on how ethnographers render sites, groups, or cases analytically commensurable and comparable, Beyond the Case offers a new lens for examining the assumptions, payoffs, and potential drawbacks of different forms of comparative ethnography.
Author : Robert Vincent Aunger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (277 download)
Download or read book An Ethnography of Variation written by Robert Vincent Aunger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikola Balaš
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805396765
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book An Ethnographic Chiefdom written by Nikola Balaš and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines the role of the planned economy, Marxist–Leninist ideology, disciplinary hierarchies and clientelist networks, ultimately showing how state socialist features together brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling. It offers a fresh perspective on the long-standing debates purporting to capture the differences between the Central and Eastern European tradition of ethnology and Western sociocultural anthropology.
Author : Loshini Naidoo
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535102540
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book An Ethnography of Global Landscapes and Corridors written by Loshini Naidoo and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters presented in this book draw on ethnography as a methodology in a variety of disciplines, including education, management, design, marketing, ecology and scientific contexts, illustrating the value of a qualitative approach to research design. The chapters discuss the use of traditional ethnographic methods, such as immersion, observation and interview, as well as innovative ethnographical methods which have been influenced by the new digital culture. The latter challenges notions of identity, field and traditional culture such that people are able to represent themselves in the research process rather than be represented. New approaches to ethnography also examine the use and implication of images in representation as well as critically examining the role and impact of the researcher in the process.
Author : Robert Vincent Aunger (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)
Download or read book An Ethnography of Variation written by Robert Vincent Aunger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136541934
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo written by Marcel Mauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all its complexity. The work is an illuminating source on the Eskimo and a proto-type of what an anthropologist should do with ethnographic data and exerted considerable influence on the development of social anthropology. English translation first published in 1979.
Author : Jon Bialecki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967410
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Diagram for Fire written by Jon Bialecki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing change—surprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606002
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The World Until Yesterday written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 9781403944146
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The New Sociolinguistics Reader written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated and expanded for the second edition, this core textbook provides rigorous coverage of the key themes and debates at the cutting edge of sociolinguistics research and brings together many of the most influential scholars in the field. Comprising six distinctive parts and almost fifty individual chapters, it introduces students to a wealth of issues in sociolinguistics, including refashioning linguistic identities, code-switching, language rights and the social functions of small talk. Chapters are richly illustrated with examples and informed by the latest scholarly debates. This is an essential companion for all undergraduates and postgraduates involved in the study of sociolinguistics. It will be an ideal resource for lecturers teaching modules on topics such as language variation, language and gender, language attitudes and multilingualism.
Author : Karin Knorr-Cetina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (698 download)
Download or read book The Care of the Self and Blind Variation: An Ethnography of the Empirical in Two Sciences written by Karin Knorr-Cetina and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paloma Gay y Blasco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317296583
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book How to Read Ethnography written by Paloma Gay y Blasco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an anthropological imagination of their own. The authors reveal how ethnographically-informed anthropology plays a distinctive and valuable role in comprehending the complexity of the world we live in. This fully revised second edition includes fresh excerpts from key texts for analysis and comparison along with lucid explanations. In addition to concerns with argument, authority, and the relationship between theory and data, the book engages with the purpose, value, and accountability of ethnographic texts, as well as with their reception and usage. A brand new chapter looks at the kinds of collaboration between informants/consultants and anthropologists that go into the making of ethnographic writing.
Author : Richard D. G. Irvine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108869955
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book An Anthropology of Deep Time written by Richard D. G. Irvine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of debates about the Anthropocene - a geological epoch of our own making - and contemporary concerns about ecological crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinction, it is more important than ever to locate the timeframe of human activity within the deep time of planetary history. This path-breaking book is a timely critical review of the anthropology of time, exploring our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation. Richard D. G. Irvine shows how the time-horizons of social life are a matter of crucial concern, and lays bare the ways in which human activity becomes severed from the long-term geological and ecological rhythms on which it depends.
Author : Iddo Tavory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618045X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Abductive Analysis written by Iddo Tavory and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward theorizing in qualitative research.” —Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes. The book provides novel ways to approach the challenges that plague qualitative researchers across the social sciences—how to conceptualize causality, how to manage the variation of observations, and how to leverage the researcher’s community of inquiry. Abductive Analysis is a landmark work that shows how a pragmatist approach provides a productive and fruitful way to conduct qualitative research. “In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans make a case that the thought of pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce—specifically, his theories of hypothetical reasoning and semiotics—can be used to guide and improve qualitative research. Every qualitatively-minded sociologist should consider their strong, well-crafted argument.” —Neil Gross, author of Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher “In this ground-breaking book, Tavory and Timmermans open a new direction for qualitative inquiry that cuts across current internal divisions and debates. By reframing the logic and process of making sense of data within a pragmatic approach, they give new life to the craft of theorizing. Thoughtful and intellectually exciting, Abductive Analysis is both inspired and inspiring.” —Diane Vaughan, author of The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Author : Colin Turnbull
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473524172
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Forest People written by Colin Turnbull and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. With a new foreword by Horatio Clare.
Author : Raymond Madden
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446241467
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Being Ethnographic written by Raymond Madden and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of practical 'how to' tips for applying theoretical methods - 'doing ethnography' - this book also provides anecdotal evidence and advice for new and experienced researchers on how to engage with their own participation in the field - 'being ethnographic'. The book clearly sets out the important definitions, methods and applications of field research whilst reinforcing the infinite variability of the human subject and addressing the challenges presented by ethnographers' own passions, intellectual interests, biases and ideologies. Classic and personal real-world case studies are used by the author to introduce new researchers to the reality of applying ethnographic theory and practice in the field. Topics include: - Talking to People: negotiations, conversations & interviews - Being with People: participation - Looking at People: observations & images - Description: writing 'down' field notes - Analysis to Interpretation: writing 'out' data - Interpretation to Story: writing 'up' ethnography Clear, engaging and original this book provides invaluable advice as well as practical tools and study aids for those engaged in ethnographic research.
Author : Leonard Bickman
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412950317
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods written by Leonard Bickman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook addresses the methodology of social science research and the appropriate use of different methods.
