A brief, practical textbook to conducting observations in naturalistic settings, replete with examples of observation-based research, questions for class discussion, a glossary, and extensive references.
Mohan J Dutta interrogates the communicative forms and practices that have been central to the establishment of neoliberal governance, and offers an alternative strategy for a grassroots-driven, participatory form of global organizing of health.
This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and partial
This book explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to create richer visitor experiences.
Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact.
This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors’ Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.
Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives and various compositional strategies.
Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism.
Nicola Bulled’s in-depth ethnographic account of how HIV prevention messages are selected, transmitted, and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach to health communication.
Practicing Oral History to Improve Public Policies and Programs is the first book to define the practice, explain how policy-makers use... Læs mere
Offers a history of the field of qualitative inquiry.