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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $27.04
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Katherine E. Hoffman
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8933064
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Publication Date: 2008-02-05
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.
- Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group
- Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity
- Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $12.88
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Manufacturer: Waveland Pr Inc
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David M. Hayano
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Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
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Dewey Decimal Number: 995.3
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Publication Date: 1990-02
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Reading Level: 164
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Description: On the remote, steep slopes of the grassland and rain forests of Highland Papua New Guinea, live the Awa, subsisting on root crops and raising domestic pigs. Like many cultures, the Awa must deal with and find solutions to the problems of human social existence: inevitable and rapid culture change, interpersonal squabbles, lying and deceit, adultery, sorcery, and unexpected death. They wait ambivalently for the building of a road that would put them in direct contact with the encroaching world of trade stores, outdoor markets, schools, and the government station. In the middle of this walks an anthropologist who learns that fieldwork is first and foremost about understanding lives, both his and theirs. This is a personal narrative that provides an intimate glimpse of the actual conduct of fieldwork among diverse individuals with remarkably distinct views of their own culture. It is an account of intertwined lives--of living anthropology--and a road of hope and promise, despair and tragedy.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $4.58
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Signe Howell
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 959.51004992
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Publication Date: 1989-12-15
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Reading Level: 312
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $34.88
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Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Co
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nigel Barley
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 959.80049922
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Publication Date: 1989-04
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Reading Level: 206
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $65.83
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Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Tonkinson
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Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 994.15
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Publication Date: 1993-09
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Reading Level: 204
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $75.77
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David M. Fetterman
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.018
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Publication Date: 1989-02-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Nominated for the 1992 Margaret Mead Award "David M. Fetterman's warm, descriptive style of writing and his emphasis on ethnographic, evaluation research in educational settings will make this book useful and interesting for a range of readers and courses." --Teaching Sociology "It serves as an excellent introduction and guidebook to the novice. David M. Fetterman takes the reader step-by-step through the theories and concepts of ethnography, its methods and techniques, and the process of analysis and writing. . . . The book is liberally illustrated with interesting and illuminating examples from the author's own work." --The Review and Expositor "Remarkably comprehensive. . . . This is an appropriate book for the clinician who is looking for a quick but responsible and imaginative overview of the ethnographic approach." --Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease "Written in the most personable style. Ethnography has become a very popular method for cultural meaning and David M. Fetterman . . . takes us on a tour of what he refers to as the ethnographic wilderness. . . . The book is a freshly written and very authoritative account of ethnographic method. Fetterman brings all of his anthropological experience into this small volume, which makes very lively reading. . . . Gives the reader an overview of what ethnography is all about. Fetterman's enthusiastic endorsement of this methodology is seen through many of the passages. . . . An excellent source for those new to ethnography and for those interested in ethnographic myths." --British Journal of Psychology "David M. Fetterman has drawn on his own experience, providing numerous examples from the field, and has developed a book that is concise and easy to read. It gives clear direction to the novice researcher on the process of ethnography from the proposal to the finished product. . . . Exemplars on participant observation and interviewing help the reader identify with the author's point. A useful section devoted to questions differentiates between the levels of specificity needed in particular situations. . . . There is useful information on the difficulties of applied research, when the ethnographer is employed to undertake a study. These are identified and illustrated through examples of dilemmas encountered by the author in his own past research. These provide guidance to the researcher thinking of undertaking contact research for that first time. . . . The book is a [also] useful review for the experienced researcher. . . . This highly readable book should be on the shelf of all those engaged in ethnographic research." --Qualitative Health Research "David M. Fetterman's book has all the right parts and contributes to the demystification of ethnography. Chapter 3 describes data collection methods and techniques in ethnography in a clear, practical manner. A beginning ethnographer would find this chapter particularly helpful in understanding the craft of fieldwork." --Qualitative Studies in Education Sifting through notepads filled with illegible scrawl, listening to hours of tape recordings, labeling and organizing piles of photographs and slides, and cross referencing disks of data are all too familiar pictures to the ethnographic researcher. How does one avoid such pictures? Ethnography provides an up-to-date guide on conducting ethnographic research. Using examples drawn from many disciplines, this practical volume introduces the reader to the paradigms used in ethnography, the nature of field work, the equipment needed to conduct research, the analysis of data, the differences and similarities between qualitative and quantitative approaches, and writing the report. Throughout the book, Fetterman provides insights into putting people at ease, research ethics, and sensitivity to other cultures. The text also includes a thorough introduction to microcomputers and printers (including the different software packages) that are used in ethnographic studies. Ethnography is a useful guide for the novice, an invaluable tool for the teacher, and an enjoyable refresher for the experienced ethnographer.
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Price: $2.50
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Scholastic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Betsey Chessen::Samantha Berger
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Publisher: Scholastic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 409.73
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Publication Date: 1998-12
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Tells how different children in the United States say hello.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $44.97
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David D. Laitin
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 409.6773
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Publication Date: 1977-05-01
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Reading Level: 275
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Description: When the Somali Republic received independence, its parliamentary government decided to adopt three official languages: English, Italian, and Arabic—all languages of foreign contact. Since the vast majority of the nation's citizens spoke a single language, Somali, which then had no written form, this decision made governing exceedingly difficult. Selecting any one language was equally problematic, however, because those who spoke the official language would automatically become the privileged class.
Twelve years after independence, a military government was able to settle the acrimonious controversy by announcing that Somali would be the official language and Latin the basic script. It was hoped that this choice would foster political equality and strengthen the national culture. Politics, Language, and Thought is an exploration of how language and politics interrelate in the Somali Republic. Using both historical and experimental evidence, David D. Laitin demonstrates that the choice of an official language may significantly affect the course of a country's political development.
Part I of Laitin's study is an attempt to explain why the parliamentary government was incapable of reaching agreement on a national script and to assess the social and political consequences of the years of nondecision. Laitin shows how the imposition of nonindigenous languages produced inequalities which eroded the country's natural social basis of democracy.
Part 2 attempts to relate language to political thought and political culture. Analyzing interviews and role-playing sessions among Somali bilingual students, Laitin demonstrates that the impact of certain political concepts is quite different when expressed in different languages. He concludes that the implications of choosing a language are far more complex than previously thought, because to change the language of a people is to change the ways they think and act politically.
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Price: $45.95
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Sale: $32.33
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Daniel Neyland
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Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2007-11-30
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Ethnography has become an established method of researching organizational life. Ethnographic approaches provide in-depth insights into what people and organizations do on a day-to-day basis and provide the foundations for cutting-edge observational research in large and small organizations.
Organizational Ethnography takes readers through the practical history of ethnography from its anthropological origins through to its use in an ever-widening variety of organizational, academic, and business contexts.
Author David Neyland covers the whole research project process, starting with research design, and dealing with such practical issues as gaining access, note-taking, project management, analyzing one’s data and negotiating an exit strategy. The book is highly practical and incorporates a range of case studies, illustrating organizational ethnography at work.
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to plan and conduct their own ethnographic, observational, or participant observational research in an organizational context, whatever their level of experience and regardless of whether they are studying a business organization or other types of organization such as schools and hospitals.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $18.12
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Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tobias Schneebaum
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.80092
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Publication Date: 2000-09
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: In the swamps of Asmat in West New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum -- traveler, writer, painter, explorer -- finds the way of life that suits him best. Secret Places reels readers into a world of storytellers and sorcerers, cannibals and carvers, a place where Schneebaum discovers his soulmates and his own soul. Looking back at a life of wild adventure, Schneebaum seeks in Secret Places to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering the parallel universes of his experience as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years among the Asmat. The result illuminates both worlds -- as when he juxtaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead with a New York City plagued by AIDS and its own sad spirits.
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