Margaret D. LeCompte is professor emerita of education and sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.Jean J. Schensul is founding director and senior scientist at the Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut.

LeCompte & Schensul's Ethnographer's Toolkit is a classic methods text in applied anthropology. The authors combine highly accessible writing, extremely pertinent examples, and a grounded approach to social inquiry that is both creative and versatile. The new edition of the introductory book in the series, Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research, represents a substantial revision of the previous edition. This edition includes new discussions of the influence of ethnicity and power, expanded entries on design and analysis, and greater emphases on team and partnership building. This text is highly recommended for both graduate and undergraduate students in anthropology and related disciplines...

• IntroductionList of Tables and FiguresList of ExamplesChapter 1. What Is Ethnography?Chapter 2. When, Where, and By Whom Should Ethnography Be Used?Chapter 3. Paradigms for Framing the Research of Ethnographic ResearchChapter 4. An Overview of Research DesignChapter 5. Choosing and Designing an Ethnographic Research ProjectChapter 6. Collecting Ethnographic DataChapter 7. Data Analysis: How Ethnographers Make Sense of their DataChapter 8. Identifying and Building Research Items and Research PartnershipsChapter 9. Applying EthnographyChapter 10. Protection of Risk to Human Subjects and the Ethics of Ethnographic FieldworkReferencesIndex

Margaret D. LeCompte is professor emerita of education and sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.Jean J. Schensul is founding director and senior scientist at the Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut.

LeCompte & Schensul's Ethnographer's Toolkit is a classic methods text in applied anthropology. The authors combine highly accessible writing, extremely pertinent examples, and a grounded approach to social inquiry that is both creative and versatile. The new edition of the introductory book in the series, Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research, represents a substantial revision of the previous edition. This edition includes new discussions of the influence of ethnicity and power, expanded entries on design and analysis, and greater emphases on team and partnership building. This text is highly recommended for both graduate and undergraduate students in anthropology and related disciplines...

• IntroductionList of Tables and FiguresList of ExamplesChapter 1. What Is Ethnography?Chapter 2. When, Where, and By Whom Should Ethnography Be Used?Chapter 3. Paradigms for Framing the Research of Ethnographic ResearchChapter 4. An Overview of Research DesignChapter 5. Choosing and Designing an Ethnographic Research ProjectChapter 6. Collecting Ethnographic DataChapter 7. Data Analysis: How Ethnographers Make Sense of their DataChapter 8. Identifying and Building Research Items and Research PartnershipsChapter 9. Applying EthnographyChapter 10. Protection of Risk to Human Subjects and the Ethics of Ethnographic FieldworkReferencesIndex