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1. Reflexive Ethnography

   A Guide to Researching Selves and Others, 2nd Edition

   By Charlotte Aull Davies, Charlotte Aull Davies

   Series: The ASA Research Methods

   Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of...

   Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge
2. An Anthropologist in Japan

   Glimpses of Life in the Field

   By Joy Hendry

   Series: The ASA Research Methods

   In this highly personal account Joy Hendry relates her experiences of fieldwork in a Japanese town and reveals a fascinating cross-section of Japanese life. She sets out on a study of politeness but a variety of unpredictable events including a volcanic eruption, a suicide and her son's involvement...

   Published February 3rd 1999 by Routledge
3. Reflexive Ethnography

   A Guide to Researching Selves and Others

   By Charlotte Aull Davies

   Series: The ASA Research Methods

   Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology. However, contemporary debate on themes such as modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity and self/other put the value of fieldwork into question. Reflexive Ethnography provides a practical and comprehensive guide to...

   Published December 16th 1998 by Routledge
4. Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists

   By Michael Fischer

   Series: The ASA Research Methods

   As increasing numbers of social anthropologists use a computer for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows, Computer Applications in Social Anthropology covers research activities shared by all social anthropologists and introduces new methods for organizing and...

   Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
5. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts

   A Guide to Research Practices

   By Ruth Finnegan

   Series: The ASA Research Methods

   The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral form and their performances, treating both the...

   Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge