Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 190 pages
• Published by: Waveland Press
• Edition: 2nd Edition August 5, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1577664647
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1577664642
• Book Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 9.6 ounces

Product Description
As a practical bridge between the classroom and the field, this down-to-earth, hands-on collection offers an impressive range of insightful, focused vignettes about cultural research that will jumpstart students’ thinking about the practice of anthropology. Reflecting the contributions of nearly two dozen practicing social scientists, each clearly written chapter of Doing Cultural Anthropology covers the basics of a different data-collection technique. Following an overview of a particular ethnographic method, each author describes his or her own research project and shows how that technique is utilized. Learning-by-doing remains the thrust of the latest edition, which includes two new chapters plus significant revisions to five of the original contributions. Each chapter ends with suggestions for student projects that promote firsthand exposure to what ethnographers actually do. Readers are given just enough information to appreciate the technique and to practice it for themselves.

Publisher Description
Titles also by Michael Angrosino and available from Waveland Press: Exploring Oral History: A Window on the Past (ISBN 9781577665687); Field Projects in Anthropology, Third Edition (with Julia G. Crane) (ISBN 9780881336856); and Projects in Ethnographic Research (ISBN 9781577663690). Title of related interest also from Waveland Press: McCurdy et al., The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577663645).

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