Ethnography & Methodology Books

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1. Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchene, Monica Heller

   There is marked variation in the forms taken by the relationships between globalization and localization, between linguistic and cultural dimensions of social practice and its discursive legitimation, and among competing ideologies of language and identity. The goal of this book is to explore...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88859-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Opening the Black Box: The Everyday Life of Surveillance

   By Gavin Smith

   Social control has, in recent times, undergone a series of technological transformations. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) which has become a common feature of the urban landscape is one such innovation. Substantial capital is invested in vast networks of surveillance cameras in a bid to shape...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58729-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Modern Anthropology of India: A Reader

   Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58724-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Touring Poverty

   By Bianca Freire-Medeiros

   Touring Poverty is the first book to address a highly controversial practice: the turning of impoverished neighborhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. Providing a wealth of empirical material and illustration, the book takes the reader into a journey through Rocinha, a...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59654-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods

   Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann

   It is now nearly fifteen years since Marcus (1995) published a cornerstone text arguing for the adoption of ‘multi-sited’ approaches in ethnography. Over that time, a growing number of researchers across the social sciences have been attracted to such strategies since they offer powerful ways to...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-96524-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social

   Edited by Lury Celia, Nina Wakeford

   Methods texts in social and cultural research have not kept pace with the increasing importance of interdisciplinary work, changing conceptions of the empirical, and the need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. This volume proposes a set of new approaches for the empirical...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-57481-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences

   Edited by Andrew Barry, GEORGINA BORN

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57892-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Method in Social Science: Revised 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition

   By Andrew Sayer

   In its second edition, Method in Social Science was widely praised for its penetrating analysis of central questions in social science discourse. This revised edition comes with a new preface and a full bibliography. The book is intended for students and researchers familiar with social science but...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58247-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals)

   By W.W. Sharrock, Bob Anderson

   Originally published in 1986, this work examines how key figures such as Garfinkel, Sacks and Cicourel have revolutionised thinking about how sociology's presuppositions about 'being social' are grounded. Yet until the appearance of this book there were no clear and authoritative...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-60884-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World

    By Josiane Cauquelin

    Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan. The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only...

    September 2010 | 978-0-415-60003-3 | Paperback (Routledge)