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Ethnography
Kinds of Ethnography Selected AbstractsUrban Ethnographies in the United StatesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2002Hilary Silver Books reviewed in this article: Gamm, Gerald, Urban Exodus: why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed Pattillo-McCoy, Mary, Black picket fences: privilege and peril among the black middle class [source] Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World OrderAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2004BRUCE GRANT No abstract is available for this article. [source] Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet UnionAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2001Michele Rivkin-Fish Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Daphne Berdahl. Matti Bunzl. and Martha Lampland. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. vii. 252 pp., maps, photographs, references, index, [source] Management Behaviour as Social Capital: A Systematic Analysis of Organizational EthnographiesBRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2005Randy Hodson This article explores managerial behaviour as a potential source of social capital in the workplace. Using content-coded data from the full population of organizational ethnographies (N = 204), we explore facets of workplace behaviours and relations that have been difficult to evaluate using survey-based techniques. Analysing ethnographic-based data with multivariate techniques, we find that competent management leadership, in particular, has widespread and significant effects on important workplace outcomes such as job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviour, and co-worker infighting. The findings highlight the value of cross-methods techniques for evaluating and extending existing workplace theories. [source] Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line EthnographyCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2003René T. A. Lysloff First page of article [source] Wine, Ethnography, and French HistoryCULTURE, AGRICULTURE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT, Issue 1-2 2004Associate Professor Kolleen M. Guy Vintages and Traditions: An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Wine Cooperatives. Robert C. Ulin. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc. Winnie Lem. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. [source] Ethnography, Comparison, and Changing TimesETHOS, Issue 4 2005ROBERT I. LEVY This article, based on Levy's Distinguished Lecture at the 2001 meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, summarizes his views on how the psychologies of actors and the community forms and structures in which they are embedded, dancers and their dances, are mutually constituted. In particular, he contrasts two distinct communities where he did field research: Piri, a small village in French Polynesia; and Bhaktapur, a religious city in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, suggesting that the particular cultures of these two places give rise to different forms of public life and childrearing, resulting in differing kinds of learning during childhood and ultimately in distinctive experiences of the self. [source] Rewards and Challenges of Using Ethnography in Family ResearchFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 1 2007Lara Descartes Ethnography offers many potential benefits to family researchers, such as providing on-the-ground knowledge of the contexts that affect family functioning and processes. This article describes ethnographic methods and reviews how they have been and may be used in family research, whether alone or in combination with more traditional approaches. The author's fieldwork experiences are used to discuss some of the rewards and challenges of ethnography. The ways in which issues of personal identity and power may impact the relationship between the ethnographer and research participants are examined. Also discussed are the ways in which contemporary constructions of private and public space and time affect the ethnographic process. The goal of the article is to highlight the value of ethnography to family research and to increase awareness of some of the factors to be considered while planning such work. [source] Urban Ethnography of the 1920s Working GirlGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 3 2007Jaber F. Gubrium The 1920s was the era of the city. The urban population of the USA for the first time exceeded the population of rural areas and the nascent institutions of city life were flourishing. This article discusses the urban ethnography of the era with a focus on the way women and work was conceptualized, especially how ,the city' figured in explanation. Three ethnographies are examined ,Frances Donovan'sThe Woman Who Waits (1920) and The Saleslady (1929) and Paul Cressey'sThe Taxi-Dance Hall (1932). Donovan and Cressey presented their empirical material to show that the so-called working girl faced a multifaceted world of opportunity in employment, not of disadvantage, as commonly emphasized in today's ethnographic studies of women and work. The conclusion reflects on the past, present and future in terms of the city's explanatory prominence in various eras. [source] Ethnography in/of Nations GAD Distinguished Lecture, 2003GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY BULLETIN OF THE GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION, Issue 2 2004Lila Abu-Lughod First page of article [source] Ethnography: a research method in practiceINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH, Issue 4 2001Catherine Palmer Abstract This article discusses the ethnographic methods employed for a doctoral study focusing upon heritage tourism and English national identity. It explains the fundamental principles behind the research and how the field work was conducted. In addition, it examines the issues of practicality which emerged during the research process and discusses how these were resolved. The article concludes by highlighting the importance of ethnography as a tool for understanding and interpreting visitor behaviour. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Connective Ethnography for the Exploration of e-ScienceJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 2 2007Christine Hine E-science comprises diverse sites, connected in complex and heterogeneous ways. While ethnography is well established as a way of exploring the detail of the knowledge production process, some strategic adaptations are prompted by this spatial complexity of e-science. This article describes a study that focused on the biological discipline of systematics, exploring the ways in which use of a variety of information and communication technologies has become a routine part of disciplinary practice. The ethnography combined observation and interviews within systematics institutions with mailing list participation, exploration of web landscapes, and analysis of expectations around information and communications technologies as portrayed in policy documents. Exploring connections among these different activities offers a means of understanding multiple dimensions of e-science as a focus of practice and policy. It is important when studying e-science to engage critically with claims about the transformative capacity of new technologies and to adopt methodologies that remain agnostic in the face of such claims: A connective approach to ethnography offers considerable promise in this regard. [source] Applied Anthropology/antropología de la gestión: Debating the Uses of Anthropology in the United States and Latin America: From Policy Ethnography to Theory of Practice: Introductory ConsiderationsJOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2001Judith Freidenberg In this set of articles, three anthropologists based in Latin America discuss the politics and practicalities of doing applied anthropology in Mexico and Puerto Rico ,a discussion based in their own working lives as researchers ,while two anthropologists based in the United States (Sidney Mintz and myself) provide some commentary. Our goal is to contribute to the "decolonizing of anthropology" (Harrison 1997): by expanding current questions posed in the U.S. to other countries, our intent is to transform what has largely been a discourse on a "native" anthropology (NAPA1995) into a "transnational" anthropology (Hannerz 1998). Thus, rather than a survey of current practice in applied anthropology in the Americas, this special section is offered as an invitation to dialogue, and a call for greater discussion among anthropologists concerned with the application of knowledge in different nations and/or regions of the Americas. [source] Ethnography and the ethics of undertaking research in different mental healthcare settingsJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 3 2010H. ALLBUTT rgn ba msc phd Accessible summary ,,We report our experiences of seeking regulatory approval to undertake a qualitative research study using observation and interviews in three different mental healthcare settings. ,,All users of mental health services are classified as ,vulnerable' research participants by UK regulatory research systems. We argue that this is both disempowering to users and also at odds with current health care policy to promote service user involvement in research processes. ,,Access to mental healthcare sites was difficult in spite of agreement by senior area managers. Front-line team leaders acted as gatekeepers to influence which service users could be approached to take part in the study. This type of intervention may bias research samples and dilute the knowledge claims researchers can make from research undertaken in practice settings. Abstract This paper draws on our experiences of seeking research ethics and management approval for a 1-year ethnographic research study in three mental health settings. We argue that the increased bureaucratization of research governance in the UK is paternalistic and unfit for qualitative, non-interventionist study designs. The classification of all mental health services users as ,vulnerable' is also disempowering and contrary to government calls to increase user involvement in research processes. We relate our difficulties in accessing National Health Service sites to undertake our study despite endorsement by senior managers. The current research ethics system reinforces the gatekeeping role of front-line National Health Service staff but this may work to bias samples in favour of ,amenable' service users and exclude others from having their views and experiences represented in studies over the long-term. [source] Born unto Brothels,Toward a Legal Ethnography of Sex Work in an Indian Red-Light AreaLAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 3 2008Prabha Kotiswaran The global sex panic around sex work and trafficking has fostered prostitution law reform worldwide. While the normative status of sex work remains deeply contested, abolitionists and sex work advocates alike display an unwavering faith in the power of criminal law; for abolitionists, strictly enforced criminal laws can eliminate sex markets, whereas for sex work advocates, decriminalization can empower sex workers. I problematize both narratives by delineating the political economy and legal ethnography of Sonagachi, one of India's largest red-light areas. I show how within Sonagachi there exist highly internally differentiated groups of stakeholders, including sex workers, who, variously endowed by a plural rule network,consisting of formal legal rules, informal social norms, and market structures,routinely enter into bargains in the shadow of the criminal law whose outcomes cannot be determined a priori. I highlight the complex relationship between criminal law and sex markets by analyzing the distributional effects of criminalizing customers on Sonagachi's sex industry. [source] Stigma, Community, Ethnography: Joan Ablon's Contribution to the Anthropology of Impairment-DisabilityMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2004RUSSELL P. SHUTTLEWORTH Joan Ablon has helped establish the anthropology of impairment-disability and significantly contributed to the role of anthropology in disability studies. In this article, we review the development of and situate Ablon's ethnographic research in the anthropology of impairment-disability. We then address various methodological issues in her work including her ethnographic approach, her grounding in action anthropology and her support for the development of the academic study of disability in anthropology and the careers of disabled anthropologists. The next section of the article examines Ablon's use of the notion of stigma, her understanding of community, and her engagement with disability rights. As examples of themes important to disability studies, we present her discussion of the implications of the ideal of the body beautiful, and gender differences in negotiating intimacy for people with physical differences. We close with a discussion of the future of an anthropology of impairment-disability. [disability, impairment, Ablon, genetics, ethnography] [source] The Story Catches You and You Fall Down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and "Cultural Competence"MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2003Janelle S. Taylor Anne Fadiman 's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Noonday Press, 1997) is widely used in "cultural competence" efforts within U.S. medical school curricula. This article addresses the relationship between theory, narrative form, and teaching through a close critical reading of that book that is informed by theories of tragedy and ethnographies of medicine. I argue that The Spirit Catches You is so influential as ethnography because it is so moving as a story; it is so moving as a story because it works so well as tragedy; and it works so well as tragedy precisely because of the static, reified, essentialist understanding of "culture" from which it proceeds. If professional anthropologists wish our own best work to speak to "apparitions of culture" within medicine and other "cultures of no culture," I suggest that we must find compelling new narrative forms in which to convey more complex understandings of "culture." [medical education, cultural competence, tragedy, ethnography, theories of culture] [source] Using Ethnography to Assess Community Advisory Panels in "Cancer Alley"AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010Shirley J. Fiske No abstract is available for this article. [source] Words upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study by J. S. BieloAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010Brian Malley No abstract is available for this article. [source] Made in Sheffield: An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics by Massimiliano MollonaAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010Dimitra Doukas No abstract is available for this article. [source] Ethnography for the Digital Age: http://www.YouTube/ Digital Ethnography (Michael Wesch)AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2010Alaka Wali No abstract is available for this article. [source] Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive by Johannes Fabian Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders by Johannes FabianAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009CHRISTOPHER KELTY No abstract is available for this article. [source] Understanding the Rise of Consumer Ethnography: Branding Technomethodologies in the New EconomyAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009Timothy de Waal Malefyt ABSTRACT In this article, I aim to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the changing public role of anthropology by exploring the rise of branded ethnographic practices in consumer research. I argue that a juncture in the "New Economy",the conjoining of corporate interest in branding, technology, and consumers, with vast social changes,may explain the rapid growth of ethnography for consumer research and predict its future direction. An analysis of branded propaganda from ethnographic vendors that claim their technology-enhanced methods innovate "classic" anthropological practices discloses the way corporations employ technologically mediated means to focus on the reflexive self in consumer research. In this analysis, I reveal that technological methodologies are central to the production of branded ethnographic practices, as forms of branding and technology legitimate consumer,corporate flows of interaction. The conclusion raises awareness to the ways in which modern branding practices reconstruct anthropology in public discourse. [Keywords: branding, consumer research, ethnography, reflexivity, technology] [source] Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India by Susan SeizerAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2008SARA DICKEY No abstract is available for this article. [source] Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability by Susan A. CrateAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2008MARJORIE MANDELSTAM BALZER No abstract is available for this article. [source] Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political ChangeAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2005DAN BRADBURD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and EthnographyMUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2008Sergei Kan Abstract In the 1900s,1920s, Lev Shternberg played a major role in transforming the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography into Russia's most comprehensive ethnology museum and a popular site for visitors. As an anthropologist, Shternberg was committed to both a Boasian investigation of individual cultures (and intercultural relations) and classical evolutionism. Hence he believed that his museum had to include displays depicting distinct cultures and culture areas and a separate department illustrating "the evolution and typology of culture." The article examines his work of putting the former part of this vision into practice and the reasons why the latter one failed. [source] Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" MarriagesAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2004ARA WILSON No abstract is available for this article. [source] Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of SpeakingAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2002Michael A. Uzendoski Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking. Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 309 pp. [source] A Comment on Roberta Fiske-Rusciano's Review of Crumbling Walls and Tarnished Ideals: An Ethnography of East Germany before and after Unification, by Hans BaerAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2001Michael Cohn No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||