Professional Stranger An Informal Introduction to Ethnography

Name: Professional Stranger An Informal Introduction to Ethnography
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ISBN: 9780120444700

ISBN-10: 0120444704

ISBN-13: 9780120444700

Edition: 2nd 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Michael H. Agar

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This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive chapter that brings ethnography up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar shows how the fundamentals endure even as they adapt to a world unimagined when the research perspective developed more than 100 years ago. Contemporary discussions of ethnography are loaded with choices, primarily "either-or" options. Just as the first edition crossed the qualitative-quantitative divide, the new edition integrates classical scientific notions with new concepts such as narrative and interpretation. Agar updates the contrast…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date: 6/21/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Ethnography Reconstructed: The Stranger at Fifteen


The Concepts of Fieldwork


Getting Started


Who Are You to Do This? Ethnography


Beginning Fieldwork


Narrowing the Focus


Informal to Formal: Some Examples


The Ethnographic Research Proposal


Ethnography in Context