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Book Pains and Pleasures of Fieldwork

Download or read book Pains and Pleasures of Fieldwork written by Anwarullah Chowdhury and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book They Ask If We Eat Frogs

Download or read book They Ask If We Eat Frogs written by Ellen Bal and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh. It deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of Garo-ness, in the context of the complex historical developments.

Book Anthropological Fieldwork

Download or read book Anthropological Fieldwork written by James Davies and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists are affected by and affect others through emotional engagement; they “manage” emotions or allow them to unfold as vehicles of understanding. The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied relational process mediated by emotions. If fieldwork is to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity must complement the wider reflexive task of anthropologists. This makes particular demands on the training of anthropologists, and the contributors to this volume propose new ways of practising emotional reflexivity (such as radical empiricism) that enhance anthropological knowledge. Emotions in anthropology are explored from a variety of methodological and theoretical standpoints, drawing on fieldwork in Nepal, the UK, Taiwan, Russia, India and the Philippines.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork written by Nasir Uddin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. The accounts are cross-disciplinary including anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, gender studies, forestry and environmental studies, economics, and international relations. They are also trans-regional, covering the globe including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. The book offers a comprehensive portrait of multifaceted challenges that social researchers experience while doing fieldwork in various social settings. The accounts provide both challenges of doing fieldwork in the 21st century and the ways how to address/redress them in the field by complying with the codes of ethics, and the politics of fieldwork. Readers will benefit from the handbook by understanding methodological issues from both disciplinary relevance and regional specificity across time and spaces.

Book Qualitative Research Practice

Download or read book Qualitative Research Practice written by Clive Seale and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a diversity of methods and a variety of perspectives and is a very practical and informative guide for newcomers and experienced researchers alike' - John Scott, University of Essex `The best ways in which to understand the issues and processes informing qualitative research is to learn from the accounts of its leading practitioners. Here they come together in what is a distinctive and wide-ranging collection that will appeal to postgraduates and social researchers in general' - Tim May, University of Salford `This excellent guide engages in a dialogue with a wide range of expert qualitative researchers, each of whom considers their own practice in an illuminating and challenging way. Overall, the book constitutes an authoritative survey of current methods of qualitative research data collection and analysis' - Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey Learning to do good qualitative research occurs most fortuitously by seeing what researchers actually do in particular projects and by incorporating their procedures and strategies into one's own research practice. This is one of the most powerful and pragmatic ways of bringing to bear the range of qualitative methodological perspectives available. The chapters in this important new volume are written by leading, internationally distinguished qualitative researchers who recount and reflect on their own research experiences as well as others, past and present, from whom they have learned. It demonstrates the benefits of using particular methods from the viewpoint of real-life experience. From the outside, good research seems to be produced through practitioners learning and following standard theoretical, empiric

Book Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture

Download or read book Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture written by Christopher J. Gilbert and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture

Book Methods of Disaster Research

Download or read book Methods of Disaster Research written by Robert A. Stallings and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the worlds leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first time a primer on disaster research methods. Among the topics covered are qualitative field studies and survey research; underutilized approaches such as cross-national studies, simulations, and historical methods; and newer tools utilizing geographic information systems, the Internet, and economic modeling.

Book Biomedicine  Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh

Download or read book Biomedicine Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh written by Md. Faruk Shah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh. Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing social inequalities and disparities in healthcare are intensified by the practices undertaken in biomedical health centres through the healthcare bureaucracy and local gendered politics. This work of villagers’ healthcare practices leads to a fascinating analysis of the local healthcare bureaucracy, corruption, structural violence, commodification of health, pharmaceutical promotional strategies and gender discrimination in population control. Shah argues that biomedicine has already achieved cultural authority and acceptability at almost all levels of the health sector in Bangladesh. However, in this system healthcare bureaucracy is shaped by social capital, power relations and kin networks, and corruption is a central element of daily care practices.

Book Tourism  Performance and the Everyday

Download or read book Tourism Performance and the Everyday written by Michael Haldrup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism has become increasingly ‘exotic’, a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore ‘exotic’ holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers to follow the flow’s of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of ‘exotic’ places on the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples’ everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or ‘exotic’ event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs, blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of performing tourists and ‘home ethnographies’ of the afterlife tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories. In doing this, the book traces out the multiple interconnections and mobilities between everyday spaces and leisure spaces as well as the multiple ways in which the Orient is consumed on holiday and at home. The book appeals to a wide audience among students, researchers and educators within the social and cultural sciences studying, researching and teaching theories and methods of tourism, Orientalism and cultural encounters as well as broader issues of leisure, consumption and everyday life.

Book Beyond Empowerment

Download or read book Beyond Empowerment written by Thomas Costa and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative study of two villages, one in Badolgachi Thana, Naogaon District and the other in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh.

Book Love  Pleasure  and Pain The Anatomy of Adultery

Download or read book Love Pleasure and Pain The Anatomy of Adultery written by R. E. Day and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book of the trilogy is an entire relationship in poetry. From first meeting to heartbreaking good-bye the complete relationship is chronicled. Although adultery is generally accepted as immoral and wrong in our culture, at least 13% of married people have succumbed. Roy met a psychologist whose musician husband had cheated, confessed, and told her to get payback. Roy was the payback, but then they fell in love. But as time went on she wouldn't leave her husband and he met dangerous Gabrielle. If you love poetry and romance, you may read it compulsively start to finish in one sitting, and you wouldn't be the first.

Book Fieldwork

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mischa Berlinski
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Release : 2009-05-01
  • ISBN : 1848873085
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Fieldwork written by Mischa Berlinski and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Set in Thailand, a brilliantly original and page-turning first novel of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and one obsessed young American reporter. When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa goes along for the ride, planning only to enjoy himself as much as possible. But when he hears about the suicide of a young woman, Martiya van der Leun, in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder, what begins as mild curiosity becomes an obsession. It is clear that Martiya was guilty, but what was it that led her to kill? 'A killer novel... A great story... You can't stop reading.' Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

Book Playing on the Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Staci Newmahr
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-14
  • ISBN : 0253005124
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Playing on the Edge written by Staci Newmahr and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.

Book Research Methodology

Download or read book Research Methodology written by Pradip Kumar Bose and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the scope and limitations of Indian research output, 1970-1990.

Book Social Science Review

Download or read book Social Science Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnographic Explorations

Download or read book Ethnographic Explorations written by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level. In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; amd Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings. The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes.

Book Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education

Download or read book Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education written by Sara Delamont and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education offers both basic and advanced discussions of data collection, analysis and representation of all the best qualitative methods used in educational research. It contains four comprehensive yet concise sections on perspectives, settings, data collection and data analysis and representation. Authors from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand contribute to a wide-ranging and provocative Handbook that will inspire novice researchers and re-invigorate experienced scholars. Its 44 well-documented chapters will serve academics and graduate students in educational research across all sectors of education from pre-school to graduate school, and all settings from formal to non-formal.