Ethnography & Methodology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Fugitive Identity of Mediation

   Negotiations, Shift Changes and Allusionary Action

   By Debbie De Girolamo

   Despite much having been written about what mediation is, direct observations of commercial mediations are limited. This book grants an opportunity to observe mediation in action and also provides external commentary about the actions observed. The book approaches Mediation ethnographically as a...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Strong and Hard Women

   An ethnography of female bodybuilding

   By Tanya Bunsell

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a way of empowering...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Boy Racer Culture

   Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

   By Karen Lumsden

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

   The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Cultural Anthropology

   Global Forces, Local Lives, 2nd Edition

   By Jack David Eller

   Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world. It offers an exceptionally clear and readable introduction to cultural anthropology, closely relating it to key topics such as colonialism and...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Sport, Difference and Belonging

   Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport

   By James Rosbrook-Thompson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Touring Poverty

   By Bianca Freire-Medeiros

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry

   Edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, Andrew Dainty

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The construction industry as a workplace is commonly seen as problematic for a number of reasons, including its worrying health and safety record, the instability of its workforce, and the poorly regulated nature of the sector. It is surprising therefore, that the sector and its working practices...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys

   Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

   By Lisa Williams

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their...

   Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

    Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Toni Robertson

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge