Ethnography & Methodology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. 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 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society

   Edited by Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Heidi Mork Lomell, Svein Hammer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   Statistics are often seen as simple, straightforward, and objective descriptions of society. However, what we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter. This volume addresses the ways in which...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Qualitative Methods in Military Studies

   Research Experiences and Challenges

   Edited by Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. E-Research

    Transformation in Scholarly Practice

    Edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski

    Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

    No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge