Cultural Anthropology

"Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard's unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice."

This book features the contributions of a wide range of researchers who consider the key research problems in their given field site and how they were managed. The selections give the novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties and apprehensions that are part of research, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues.

In this accessible introduction to the methods of ethnographic fieldwork, Hammersley and Atkinson reconsider the status of ethnography and seek to place it quite explicitly in a general methodological context. The book provides a systematic and coherent account of ethnographic principles and practices.

The Third Edition of Ethnography: Step-by-Step guides readers in collecting and making sense of large amounts of ethnographic data. It also offers current discussion about the use of technology in the pursuit of ethnography.

"Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts."

"The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods."

"Initiating Ethnographic Research: A Mixed Methods Approach explores in depth the many critical issues that ethnographic researchers need to consider before going into the field and in the earliest stages of the field experience."

Through the idea of the extended field, this volume examines current issues in fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of ethnographic knowledge construction. It offers a key text for new fieldworkers, established researchers and those looking for material to support modules on these issues.

"In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, the authors present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach."