Practicing Ethnography Browse Inside

For Instructors

Practicing Ethnography: A Student Guide to Method and Methodology

Edited by Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry

© 2017

Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America to learn how various methods work in the real world, and how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory. Exercises and assignments encourage students to practice these methods in a familiar context, and a sustained focus on visual methodologies offers coverage not found in other books. The result is a text that discusses both practical and theoretical issues in contemporary ethnography while equipping students with a set of transferable skills.

Continue Reading Read Less

Product Details

  • World Rights
  • Page Count: 288 pages
  • Dimensions: 6.0in x 0.5in x 9.0in
Product Formats

SaveUP TO

Book Formats

SKU# HE000722

  • PUBLISHED NOV 2017
    From: $40.95
    ISBN 9781487593124
  • PUBLISHED NOV 2017
    From: $32.95
Library Recommendation

Quick Overview

Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography.

Practicing Ethnography: A Student Guide to Method and Methodology

Edited by Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry

© 2017

Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America to learn how various methods work in the real world, and how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory. Exercises and assignments encourage students to practice these methods in a familiar context, and a sustained focus on visual methodologies offers coverage not found in other books. The result is a text that discusses both practical and theoretical issues in contemporary ethnography while equipping students with a set of transferable skills.

Continue Reading Read Less

Product Details

  • World Rights
  • Page Count: 288 pages
  • Dimensions: 6.0in x 0.5in x 9.0in

  • Reviews

    "In Practicing Ethnography, the authors offer a well-constructed volume created to guide students of cultural anthropology in developing themselves as ethnographer...It provides an extremely useful structure for instructors to base courses on while still being loose enough for one to incorporate their own touches."


    Hilary-Joy Virtanen, Finlandia University
    Journal of Folklore Research

    "This book offers considerable scope in its explanation of research strategies and the disciplinary context and theoretical grounding of ethnographic methodology, which makes it an attractive textbook for teaching undergraduates. Its diversity of voice and perspectives makes it engaging and dynamic, and the numerous examples of fascinating anthropological fieldwork bring the research process to life."
    Susan Frohlick, UBC Okanagan

    "Practicing Ethnography is an excellent introductory text for undergraduate students who are embarking on ethnographic research for the first time. This engaging and accessible book succinctly covers aspects of the research process that are often belabored or overlooked in other methods textbooks. It encourages students to think critically about the opportunities and issues inherent in ethnographic fieldwork."
    Melanie Medeiros, SUNY Geneseo

  • Author Information

    Lynda Mannik, PhD. is the editor of Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival (2016) and author of Photography, Memory, and Refugee Identity: The Voyage of the SS Walnut, 1948 (2013). She currently teaches anthropology at York University in Toronto.


    Karen McGarry is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University. She is a co-author of Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach (2013) and co-editor with Lynda Mannik of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation (2015).

  • Table of contents

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction

    Part I: Origins and Basics

    1. The Origins and Development of Sociocultural Anthropological Fieldwork in North America
    2. Participant Observation
    3. Ethics and the Politics of Fieldwork
    4. Connecting with Others: Interviewing, Conversations, and Life Histories

    Part II: Notes, Data, and Representation

    5. How to Create Field Notes
    6. After Fieldwork–Analyzing Data
    7. Writing Up and the Politics of Representation

    Part III: Shifting Field Sites

    8. Applied Ethnography
    9. Autoethnography: The Self and Other Revisited

    Part IV: Visual Aids

    10. Photo-elicitation: Collaboration, Memory, and Emotions
    11. Ethnographic Film as Ethnographic Method
    12. Doing Research with and in Virtual Communities: Culture, Community, and the Internet

    Glossary of Key Terms
    References
    Index

Related Titles