Ethnographic Alternatives – serie
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33 produkter
Writing the New Ethnography
Häftad, 2000
603 kr
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Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences. Goodall's distinctive style will engage and energize students, offering them provocative advice and exercises for turning …
Karaoke Nights
An Ethnographic Rhapsody
Av Rob Drew
Häftad, 2001
621 kr
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Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions—possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head-shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when the Japanese craze had only recently arrived in the U.S., Rob Drew was drawn to the phenomenon as subject of research. What he discovered will fascinate …
Performing Femininity
Rewriting Gender Identity
Häftad, 2004
603 kr
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A personal, revealing, and sometimes humorous exploration of female experience, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Using ethnographic method, Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a …
Between Gay and Straight
Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation
Häftad, 2001
618 kr
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It started as a class project—a young, married, small-town white woman interviewing a gay acquaintance and his circle of friends. From this developed a three-year exploration of the complexities of carrying on gay-straight friendships. This reflexive, thoughtful, and compellingly written study …
In Search of Naunny's Grave
Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family
Häftad, 2004
376 kr
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Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz, 'Naunny' to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo, was a working class woman, daughter of New Mexico Hispanos, and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for Trujillo's experimental ethnography of family …
Methodology of the Heart
Evoking Academic and Daily Life
Inbunden, 2004
1525 kr
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Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. In his array of authentic essays, Ronald J. Pelias poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field—the academy. A Methodology of the Heart presents …
Methodology of the Heart
Evoking Academic and Daily Life
Häftad, 2004
600 kr
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Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. In his array of authentic essays, Ronald J. Pelias poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field—the academy. A Methodology of the Heart presents …
Travels with Ernest
Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide
Av Laurel Richardson, Ernest Lockridge
Inbunden, 2004
1805 kr
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In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that …
Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
Inbunden, 2007
1616 kr
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In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very …
Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
Häftad, 2007
578 kr
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In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very …
Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
E-bok, 2007
626 kr
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In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer''s eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very …
Performing Femininity
Rewriting Gender Identity
E-bok, 2004
674 kr
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A personal, revealing, and sometimes humorous exploration of female experience, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Using ethnographic method, Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a …
Methodology of the Heart
Evoking Academic and Daily Life
E-bok, 2004
651 kr
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Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. In his array of authentic essays, Ronald J. Pelias poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field-the academy. A Methodology of the Heart presents …
Travels with Ernest
Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide
Av Laurel Richardson, Ernest Lockridge
E-bok, 2004
1714 kr
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In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that …
In Search of Naunny's Grave
Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family
E-bok, 2004
430 kr
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Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz, ''Naunny'' to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo, was a working class woman, daughter of New Mexico Hispanos, and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for Trujillo''s experimental ethnography of family …
Ethnographic I
A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography
E-bok, 2004
833 kr
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A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional …
Karaoke Nights
An Ethnographic Rhapsody
Av Rob Drew
E-bok, 2001
641 kr
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Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions-possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head-shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when the Japanese craze had only recently arrived in the U.S., Rob Drew was drawn to the phenomenon as subject of research. What he discovered will fascinate …
Opportunity House
Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation
Häftad, 1997
717 kr
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Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V. Angrosino's riveting and de-mystifying account offers an insider's picture of the lives of the inhabitants of Opportunity House. Using the narrative device of a dozen fictional …
Fiction and Social Research
By Ice or Fire
Av Anna Banks, Stephen P. Banks
Häftad, 1998
694 kr
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Fiction and Social Research brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. At the intersections of fiction, ethnography, and cultural studies, these essays demonstrate narratives that simultaneously enrich …
Composing Ethnography
Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing
Av Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner
Häftad, 1996
717 kr
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What is it like to have lived with bulimia for most of your life? To have a mother who is retarded? To fight a health insurance company in order to survive breast cancer? Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner have assembled innovative pieces which tackle these and other difficult questions, enlarging …
Reading Auschwitz
Inbunden, 1998
1641 kr
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'My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like …
Reading Auschwitz
Häftad, 1998
645 kr
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'My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like …
Reading Auschwitz
E-bok, 1998
626 kr
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''My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I''ve heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like …
Opportunity House
Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation
E-bok, 1997
779 kr
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Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V. Angrosino''s riveting and de-mystifying account offers an insider''s picture of the lives of the inhabitants of Opportunity House. Using the narrative device of a dozen fictional …
Ethnographically Speaking
Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics
Av Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis
Inbunden, 2001
1771 kr
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This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize …
Ethnographically Speaking
Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics
Av Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis
Häftad, 2001
457 kr
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This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize …
Standing Ovation
Performing Social Science Research About Cancer
Av Ross Gray, Christina Sinding
2002
1273 kr
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Is theatrical performance an effective way to communicate the results of social science research to health practitioners and the public? Ross Gray and Christina Sinding describe how their studies about metastatic breast cancer and prostate cancer were transformed into Handle with Care? and No Big …
Time at Darwin's Reef
Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History
Av Ivan Brady
Häftad, 2003
628 kr
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The Time at Darwin's Reef is primarily a book of storytelling through mixed genres—verse, prose, and painting. Brady's work is designed to draw out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing—in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting and …
In Search of Naunny's Grave
Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family
Inbunden, 2004
784 kr
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Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz, 'Naunny' to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo, was a working class woman, daughter of New Mexico Hispanos, and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for Trujillo's experimental ethnography of family …
Travels with Ernest
Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide
Av Laurel Richardson, Ernest Lockridge
Häftad, 2004
647 kr
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In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge—accomplished sociologist and published novelist—explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that …