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Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao: A Study of Environment, Culture, and Society in Northern Luzon

2 reviews
Harold C. Conklin, Pugguwon Lupaih, ...

Elliots Books, 1980

Essential for Cartography, Ethnography, Book-making Pick ?em
There are books that are fine and attractive volumes, books that are valuable for their purview of other cultures, books that stand alone as art. This atlas, in truth a working volume and nothing to be set aside in some sterile cabinet, is all of those and then some. There are a couple of books that joust for the title of the most beautiful and well-conceived in late 20th century bookmaking -- ...

The Ethnographic Interview

4 reviews
James P. Spradley

Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1979

A great step-by-step guide to ethnographic interviews
This is a great step-by-step guide to the theory and practice of ethnography. Provides the theoretical rationale for why ethnography is structured as it is. It is most unique for the well thought out, structured approach to interviewing. Identifies how different types of questions provide different types of data. Gives an elegant taxonomy of questions and shows how each type of question is ...

BEING THERE (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

4 reviews
BRADBURD D

Smithsonian, 1998

Bradburd takes you "there" and it's worth the trip.
As a friend, fellow ethnographer, and reviewer of other writings by Bradburd, I am very pleased to see this book in paperback (i.e., classroom usable) form and happily recommend it to others. It is highly readable, personally engaging, and very informative about people, settings, and ways of life that are not generally accessible to cultural outsiders -- even other Iranians. That Bradburd is ...

Endangered Species: Health, Illness, and Death Among Madagascar's People of the Forest (Carolina Academic ...

3 reviews
Janice Harper

Carolina Academic Press, 2002

A remarkable ethnography
This is an excellent book that looks beyond the surface of game preserves and examines the impact of species protective programs on human populations. The author uncovers tragic consiquences of short sighted policies, and governmental agencies and NGOs who refused to deal with the consiquences of their policies. A must read for any anthropology or public policy grad student.

Catalunya, One Nation, Two States: An Ethnographic Study of Nonviolent Resistance to Assimilation

2 reviews
Alexander Alland

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Catalunya: An ethnographic study
Alexander and Sonia Alland have produced a rigorous yet fascinating ethnographic study which will prove of enormous interest to those scholars of anthropology while remaining accessible to the layman. Theirs is fieldwork at its best. I admire the historic knowledge of the Catalan idiosyncrasy throughout two focus points. Two centers in two countries; Port-Bou, in Catalunya, an autonomous region ...

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film (with Ethnographic Film Clips DVD) (4th Edition)

3 reviews
Karl G. Heider

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Best introductory Text Available on the market
This is an excellent text. Any professor searching for a Cultural Anthropology text needn't look any further. Heider presents the material in a very interesting, concise, and very clear way. Heider clearly illustrates the holistic approach to anthropology and explores that avenue in an exciting way.

Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series, V. 16)

3 reviews
Ernest Lockridge

AltaMira Press, 2004

Not Just for Academics
I loved this book! Lockridge's humor pulled me in and Richardson's lyrical writing kept me reading. This is a book that cuts a broad swath through an academic couple's life. It took me to places I had never seen, made me think about my marriage in new ways and examine my career history with fresh eyes. Travels with Ernest is unique, compelling, and provocative. I highly recommend it.

CIVILIZED SHAMANS: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

2 reviews
Geoffrey Samuel

Smithsonian, 1995

An encyclopedic review of Tibetan religious life
Samuel's erudite and comprehensive review is fast becoming an indispenable tool to any serious student of Tibetan religious life (of whatever hue). Encompassing a breathtaking range of literature and information, the author's forte lies in his ability to convey the sheer vastness of extant scholarly material on Tibet, without at the same time getting bogged down in an excessively scholastic ...

The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices

2 reviews
Angie Chabram-Dernersesian

NYU Press, 2007

Great Historiography
This is a great book and its format will really be pleasing for many. It's a series of conversations between all the big/key names in Chicana/o studies. It reads like you're part of this great cafe klatch. I didn't have a favourite section--it was all good. This book is great for more of a history or historiography of Chicana/o cultural studies as both a political and academic endeavor. I ...

Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature

2 reviews
David Price

Sage Publications, Inc, 1989

I've got the whole world in my hands
This is an amazing piece of work. The author presents the location of over 5,000 cultural groups around the globe, and includes and exstensive bibliography linking these peoples with ethnographic literature. The book is vital for any anthropologist or scholar of the developing world. This has become a standard reference work for cross-cultural research projects and even the human genome ...

Analytic Culture in the United States Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study

1 review
Rob Johnston

Central Intelligence Agency, 2005

Superb analysis of challenges facing Analysts
Absolutely wonderful read, particularly if you're an "analyst" of any sort. The fact that it's been written from inside a "three letter agency" is nothing more than secondary titilation since the need to "toe the party line" is hardly confined to the intelligence trade.

The Ethnographic Imagination

2 reviews
Paul Willis

Polity, 2000

Classic Paul Willis
Paul Willis is a master craftsman when it comes to the ethnographic (as well as theoretical) imagination. Drawing on his own works (particularly Learning To Labor), Dr. Willis provides a clear and cogent analysis of symbolism in relation to commodity fetishism in everyday culture. Like Learning To Labor, this work is also theoretically dense--and I love it! Dr. Willis provides very careful and ...

Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan

2 reviews
Douglas R. White, Ulla C. Johansen

Lexington Books, 2004

Review of White and Johanson--Network Analysis
White and Johansen's "network analysis" is entirely different from the "network analysis" that was a rage for a while in the 1960s and 70s. In the 1960's many anthropologists and sociologists looked for "social structure" as a unitary system that encompassed and controlled people in society. When they could not find any real phenomenon that fit this description they shifted from the idea that ...

Alyawara ethnographic data base (Ethnography series)

1 review
Woodrow W Denham

Human Relations Area Files, 1978

Denham's Ethnographic Archive Now Available Online...
I have been working with Dr. Denham for the past 11 months in implementing his Alyawarra Ethnographic Archive and other files for internet use. I am certain that most, if not all of the information in this book (which has been out of print for quite some time) is available on his webpage through Alice Lloyd College, located at http://www.alc.edu/denham

2000 Toast (Holiday Cards)

1 review

EthnoGraphics

New Year 2000 cards
Nice artwork and layout and a good price

Before the mountains disappear: An ethnographic chronicle of the modern Palestinians

1 review
Ali H Qleibo

Kloreus Book, 1992

Palestinians As Ordinary People
Ali Qliebo is a Jerusalemite from an ancient family. He provides perspectives of the Palestinian people and the culture that are not only very human, but also when life was much better for them. There is a poignant thread that runs through this story. Much is family history, very readable and excellent cultural insights are provided. I love the book, mostly because it highlights the true ...

Ethnographic Eyes: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observation

2 reviews
Carolyn Frank

Heinemann, 1999

A Needed Text for Today's Preservice Teachers
If you are an aspiring teacher, a teacher trainer, or an experienced classroom teacher, you will find Dr. Frank's presentation both highly informative and motivating. Dr. Frank successfully takes the reader into a sense of "being there" while opening our eyes to the reality of personal biases. A helpful and friendly feature about her style is her accessibility, i.e., I felt that Dr. Frank was on ...

Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody (Ethnographic Alternatives)

2 reviews
Rob Drew

AltaMira Press, 2001

Karaoke Scholarship
It's been a while since I read the book, so my review may not be as informed as one would hope. However, Drew presents here a fun, interesting and unique application of media ethnography that is more familiar than foreign. I cannot tell a lie. I picked this up due to my own obsession with karaoke. Drew's own interests clearly motivated the project, which he makes no efforts to conceal. ...

The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series)

2 reviews
Carolyn Ellis

AltaMira Press, 2004

"I" recommend this book completely.
This is a fascinating read -- methodological theory presented in the form of a novel, a college prof teaching a class on a fairly new, "post-postmodern" form of reflexive qualitative writing, auto/ethnography. Could be seen as the manifesto for the sub-genre. Auto/ethongraphy is not embraced by all in the sicial sciences, such as anthropology, sociology, communications, psychology, medical ...

The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma (Contemporary Ethnography Series)

2 reviews
John Darwin Dorst

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989

An Intellectual Workout
Often when people think about folklore, they picture quaint villages populated by storytellers and quilters. John Dorst seeks to dispel those stereotypes with his postmodern analysis of the hidden ideology and power behind the serene façade of a middle-class elite suburb, in this case, Chadds Ford, PA, home of the Wyeth family of artists. In doing so, he pushes folklore studies into an ...

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