Ethnography & Methodology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia

   The inalienable gift of territory

   By Cynthia Chou

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...

   Published February 7th 2012 by Routledge
2. Ferry Tales

   Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast

   By Phillip Vannini

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and reflects on the performance of travel and...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Interpretive Research Design

   Concepts and Processes

   By Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow

   Series: Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods

   Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Ethnographic Methods

   2nd Edition

   By Karen O'Reilly

   This new edition of Karen O’Reilly’s popular Ethnographic Methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents. Using a wide range of...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Migration and New Media

   Transnational Families and Polymedia

   By Mirca Madianou, Daniel Miller

   How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Alan Barnard, Jonathan Spencer

   Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade....

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
7. Language in Late Capitalism

   Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
8. Marriage in Contemporary Japan

   By Yoko Tokuhiro

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Multi-Sited Ethnography

   Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods

   Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals)

    By W.W. Sharrock, Bob Anderson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    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...

    Published February 14th 2011 by Routledge