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Doing Cultural Anthropology

Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection, Second Edition

 

Michael V. Angrosino

 

As a practical bridge between the classroom and the field, this down-to-earth, hands-on collection offers an impressive range of insightful, focused vignettes about cultural research that will jumpstart students’ thinking about the practice of anthropology. Reflecting the contributions of nearly two dozen practicing social scientists, each clearly written chapter of Doing Cultural Anthropology covers the fundamentals of a different data-collection technique. Following an overview of a particular ethnographic method, each author describes his or her own research project and shows how that technique is utilized.

 

Learning-by-doing remains the thrust of the latest edition, which includes two new chapters plus significant revisions to five of the original contributions. Each chapter ends with suggestions for student projects that promote hands-on exposure to what ethnographers actually do. Readers are given just enough information to appreciate the technique and to practice it for themselves.

The Culture of the Sacred

Exploring Oral History

Field Projects in Anthropology, 3/E

How Do They Know That?

Projects in Ethnographic Research

McCurdy et al., The Cultural Experience, 2/E

 

$16.50 list, 190 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-464-7

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-464-2

© 2007

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“Insightful collection of essays that can provide undergraduates with methodological insights to complete pilot ethnographic projects.”  — Lanita Jacobs-Huey, University of Southern California

Table of Contents

 

Introduction (Michael V. Angrosino)

1. Becoming a Participant Observer (Gerry Tierney)

2. Exploring Genealogy (Constance P. deRoche)

3. Conducting a Life History Interview (Michael V. Angrosino)

4. Analyzing Narrative Data (Nancy Redfern-Vance)

5. Reconstructing a Community through Archival Research (Cheryl Rodriguez and Yvette Baber)

6. Using a Museum as a Resource for Ethnographic Research (Serena Nanda)

7. Observing a Workplace (Kathryn Borman, Ellen Puccia, Amy Fox McNulty, and Bill Goddard)

8. Carrying Out a Structured Observation (Laurie J. Price)

9. Designing a Questionnaire for Cross-Cultural Research (Robert D. Baer and Susan C. Weller)

10. Working with Numerical Data (Martha W. Rees)

11. Planning and Moderating Focus Group Research (Carol Bryant)

12. Applying Visual Methods in Ethnographic Research (S. Elizabeth Bird)

13. Constructing a Virtual Ethnography (S. Elizabeth Bird and Jessica Barber)

14. Developing a Electronic Ethnography (Alvin W. Wolfe and Guy Hagen)

15. Composing Autoethnographic Stories (Leigh Berger and Carolyn Ellis)

16. Participating in an Ethnographic Field School (Tim Wallace)