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Book Insider Anthropology

Download or read book Insider Anthropology written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods most editions available for course adoption

Book Insider Anthropology

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  • Author : E. L. Cerroni-Long
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Insider Anthropology written by E. L. Cerroni-Long and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Key Concepts in Ethnography

Download or read book Key Concepts in Ethnography written by Karen O′Reilly and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An accessible and entertaining read, useful to anybody interested in the ethnographic method." - Paul Miller, University of Cumbria "A very good introduction to ethnographic research, particularly useful for first time researchers." - Heather Macdonald, Chester University "The perfect introductory guide for students embarking on qualitative research for the first time... This should be of aid to the ethnographic novice in their navigating what is a theoretically complex and changing methodological field." - Patrick Turner, London Metropolitan University An accessible, authoritative, non-nonsense guide to the key concepts in one of the most widely used methodologies in social science: Ethnography, this book: Explores and summarises the basic and related issues in ethnography that are covered nowhere else in a single text. Examines key topics like sampling, generalising, participant observation and rapport, as well as embracing new fields such as virtual, visual and multi-sighted ethnography and issues such as reflexivity, writing and ethics. Presents each concept comprehensively yet critically, alongside relevant examples. This is not quite an encyclopaedia but far more than a dictionary. It is comprehensive yet brief. It is small and neat, easy to hold and flick through. It is what students and researchers have been waiting for.

Book Emics and Etics

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  • Author : Thomas N. Headland
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
  • Release : 1990-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780803937383
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Emics and Etics written by Thomas N. Headland and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inventor of the concepts of emics and etics, linguist Kenneth Pike, uses this volume as a forum to explain their development and their usage today. He is joined in the debate by renowned anthropologist Marvin Harris. Eight other scholars add to the scholarly discourse and demonstrate applications of the concepts in a variety of disciplines. Referring to insider versus outsider, subjective versus objective views of the world, these concepts are vital for researchers dealing with cultures other than their own.

Book Inside Cultures

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  • Author : William Balée
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-09-17
  • ISBN : 1315426471
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book Inside Cultures written by William Balée and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, contemporary, and inexpensive option for instructors of cultural anthropology breaks away from the traditional structure of introductory textbooks. Emphasizing the interaction between humans and their environment, the tension between human universals and cultural variation, and the impacts of colonialism on traditional cultures, Inside Cultures shows students how cultural anthropology can help us understand the complex, globalized world around us. This second edition: includes brand new material on a variety of subjects, including genomic studies, race and racism, cross-cultural issues of gender identity, terrorism and ethnography, and business anthropology; presents updated and enhanced discussions of medical anthropology, European colonialism and disease, the Atlantic slave trade, and much more; offers personal stories of the author’s fieldwork in Amazonia, sidebars illustrating fascinating cases of cultures in action, and other pedagogical elements such as timelines; is written is clear, supple prose that delights readers while informing them

Book Insiders and Outsiders

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  • Author : Jacqueline Waldren
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 1996-07-01
  • ISBN : 1782381864
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Insiders and Outsiders written by Jacqueline Waldren and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indigenous population of Deià has lived side by side with increasing numbers of foreigners over the past century, and what has occurred there over this period offers an example of how the population of one Mediterranean village has gained full advantage from the economic opportunities opened up by foreign investments, without losing the fabric of social relations, the meaning and values of their culture. Deià has been able to continue as a community with its own symbolic boundaries and identity, not in spite of the outsiders (some of whom are well-known literary personalities, artists and musicians) but because of their presence. This study shows how, under the impact of wars, migration, national politics, global economic and technological developments and especially tourism, the categories of Insider and Outsider are contracted and expanded, and reinterpreted to fit the constantly changing "reality" of the society; they assume different meanings at different times. The conflicts and resulting compromises over a hundred-year period have provided a sense of history that allows each group to define, develop, adapt and sustain their sense of belonging to their own communities.

Book Fixing Stories

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  • Author : Noah Amir Arjomand
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-02-17
  • ISBN : 1316518000
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Fixing Stories written by Noah Amir Arjomand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role and influence of news 'fixers' in Turkey and Syria who assist foreign journalists with local sources and shape the news.

Book Inside Organizations

Download or read book Inside Organizations written by David Gellner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us work in or for one, but there are surprisingly few sustained analyses of the problems and peculiarities of organizations. Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of western organizations, and this timely collection addresses the pleasures and pitfalls of ethnographic research undertaken across a range of organizational contexts. From museums to laboratories, health clinics, and multinational businesses, leading anthropologists discuss their fieldwork experiences, the problems they encountered, and the solutions they came up with. This book highlights the practical, political and ethical dimensions of research in organizations. Among issues vividly described are the relations between gender and politics in organizational hierarchies. How are sexual politics played out and experienced in health clinics? How does a business manager's personal biography affect the relationships within the organization as a whole? How are language and metaphor used to refigure the way people think about and act in organizations? Institutions often have well-defined procedures for bringing in visitors and guests. When is the anthropologist an insider to the organization, and when an outsider? What ethical issues arise when researchers are caught between observing organizations and participating in their work? In answering these and other questions the authors consider both the current status and future prospects for organizational ethnography. Comprehensive and varied, the book represents an invaluable aid to anyone interested in the politics and complexities of working life.

Book Anthropologists at Home in North America

Download or read book Anthropologists at Home in North America written by Donald Alan Messerschmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventeen essays focusing on the issue of practising anthropology in one's own society.

Book Anthropology Inside Out

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  • Author : Mette Lind Kusk
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN : 9781912385218
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Anthropology Inside Out written by Mette Lind Kusk and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fieldworkers' notebooks are full of sensations and observations in which the subjectivity of the ethnographer seeps through. Not really science. Much closer to life. Yet in classical anthropology they are invisible to the reader. In this book the focus is reversed, turning Anthropology Inside Out as it explores the vibrant backstage life of field notes. What happens when we put them centre stage? Aimed at both curious novice and experienced practitioner, the chapters read as a catalogue of experimental practices teetering on the edge of the tradition: intuitively observational drawings; notes pervaded with paranoia; collective notetaking; crisis-ridden personal confessions; layers of notes in photographs and archives; old flip-flops that trigger memories in mind and body. This exploration of what field notes are, can do and could be, concludes with a constellation of shimmering notes on notes from Michael Taussig, a meta-commentary on anthropologists' fetishistic relationship with the most personal of professional tools. 'This extremely timely and original book starts a long overdue discussion within anthropology. The authors are to be commended for filling a gap in the methodology literature, which was so glaring until now as to be invisible to most of us.' Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo 'The book is steeped in love for the materiality of the process of learning about life - inner life as well as the life out there. The chapters open up for reflections on the artistic and scientific aspects of the anthropological endeavour and become experimental in their expansion of the genre of anthropological work and thinking.' Professor Inger Sjørslev, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Book Inside Ethnography

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  • Author : Miriam Boeri
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2019-12-10
  • ISBN : 0520298233
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Inside Ethnography written by Miriam Boeri and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some books present “ideal” ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society’s margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs, and urban sociology, the authors portray an evolving methodology that adapts to the conditions of the field while tackling emerging controversies with perceptive sensitivity. Their judicious advice on how to avoid pitfalls and remedy missteps provides unusual insights for practitioners, academics, and undergraduate and graduate students.

Book Politics of Anthropology at Home II

Download or read book Politics of Anthropology at Home II written by Christian Giordano and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advertising and Anthropology

Download or read book Advertising and Anthropology written by Timothy de Waal Malefyt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining theory and practice, Advertising and Anthropology is a lively and important contribution to the study of organizational culture, consumption practices, marketing to consumers and the production of creativity in corporate settings. The chapters reflect the authors' extensive lived experienced as professionals in the advertising business and marketing research industry. Essays analyze internal agency and client meetings, competitive pressures and professional relationships and include multiple case studies. The authors describe the structure, function and process of advertising agency work, the mediation and formation of creativity, the centrality of human interactions in agency work, the production of consumer insights and industry ethics. Throughout the book, the authors offer concrete advice for practitioners.Advertising and Anthropology is written by anthropologists for anthropologists as well as students and scholars interested in advertising and related industries such as marketing, marketing research and design.

Book Weaving a Future

Download or read book Weaving a Future written by Elayne Zorn and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.

Book Emics and Etics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas N. Headland
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
  • Release : 1990-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780803937390
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Emics and Etics written by Thomas N. Headland and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inventor of the concepts of emics and etics, linguist Kenneth Pike, uses this volume as a forum to explain their development and their usage today. He is joined in the debate by renowned anthropologist Marvin Harris. Eight other scholars add to the scholarly discourse and demonstrate applications of the concepts in a variety of disciplines. Referring to insider versus outsider, subjective versus objective views of the world, these concepts are vital for researchers dealing with cultures other than their own.

Book Across Atlantic Ice

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  • Author : Dennis J. Stanford
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0520275780
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Across Atlantic Ice written by Dennis J. Stanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.

Book What Is Anthropology

Download or read book What Is Anthropology written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world