Asking and Listening: Ethnography As Personal Adaptation
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Manufacturer: Waveland Press
EAN (European Article Number): 9780881339871
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Author: Paul Bohannan::Dirk van der Elst
Publisher: Waveland Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8001
Publication Date: 1998-02
Reading Level: 107
Description: Giving readers the capacity to include ethnography in their own experience! Asking and Listening is the first book to trace the changing ways in which human beings have learned to look at "the Others Beyond the Gate" with their strange languages and stranger customs. Not a history of ethnography so much as a chronicle of its uses and potentials, Asking and Listening examines the premises of ethnography and concerns itself with a wide range of issues such as ethnocentrism and the morass of cultural relativism, the cultures of corporations, and the meaning of ethnography for government policy. It ends with an examination of the problems in charting our tomorrows: ethnography in the information age, and for the future. Through its pragmatic analysis of cultures as storehouses of alternatives in the way universal problems can and have been approached, Asking and Listening offers readers not merely the opportunity to make sense of descriptions of other peoples' lifeways, but makes such ethnographic knowledge immediately useful in their own lives and choices and career plans.
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Review Summary: What ethnography can do for you
Date: 2007-10-07
Details: Asking and Listening is a short (107 page) text on ethnography - studying cultures first-hand and writing about them. It is written for college students in cultural anthropology, but it will be useful to anyone who wants to know more about ethnography. I have used this book in a course on ethnography at least five times now. It has been an ideal introduction to the course, and to the book-length ethnographies that students will read and study. The book begins with a history of the development of ethnography as a research strategy and as a genre of writing. It raises some critical issues concerning studying and writing about other cultures. And it concludes with new and emerging applications of ethnography. The main theme of the book is that reading ethnographies can help the student to better understand and adapt to the global village, offering insights not only into other cultures but also into one's own culture and oneself. The writing is clear, to the point, and engaging. The content is not only well-informed but wise.
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