• Off the Grid (Innovative Ethnographies)

    Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore, means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day liv... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0415854334
    • ASIN: 0415854334
    • ISBN: 0415854334
    • Brand: Routledge
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Meetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy and Assembly (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series)

    This book is an exploration of how this remarkably efficient and familiar form of gathering operates, in different times and places, and how it comes to be recognised by those who experience or deploy it. Throws the spotlight on the epistemological and ontological basis of coming together through formal meetings of different kinds Demonstrates how meetings - socially and institutionally prescribed spaces for coming together - are important and ubiquitous organisational forms in various political, religious and economic settings  Shows how meetings feature prominently in classic anthropologic... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1119405890
    • ASIN: 1119405890
    • ISBN: 9781119405894
    • Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell

  • My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century (Innovative Ethnographies)

    * Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 * My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and et... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0415859182
    • ASIN: 0415859182
    • ISBN: 0415859182
    • Brand: Routledge
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Douglass North - My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best - Famous Quotes Laminated POSTER PRINT 24X20.

    Douglass North - My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. - Famous Quotes Laminated POSTER PRINT 24X20.We stand behind our products and services to deliver to

    • UPC: 255536564
    • Size: 24"X20"24\" x 20\"

  • Dakota Grammar : With Texts and Ethnography

    Long out of print, this classic work on the Dakota language offers extensive information on Dakota grammar and contains a bilingual selection of Dakota myths. Dakota Grammar presents three interrelating aspects of language and culture,

    • UPC: 24754985

  • Tales of the Field : On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition

    9780226849645

    • UPC: 15404187

  • What Do Lawyers Do?: An Ethnography of a Corporate Law Firm - eBook

    A legal scholar and sociologist, Flood spent years observing a large US law firm from the inside--much like an embedded journalist, but with the perspective of a researcher on the theory & practice of legal

    • UPC: 560682059

  • Sacred Rice : An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa

    Sacred Rice explores the cultural intricacies through which Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and economic conditions given the centrality of a crop--rice--that is the lynchpin for their economic, social, religious,

    • UPC: 46592634

  • With the Best Intentions : A Tale of Undergraduate Life at Cambridge (1884)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important,

    • UPC: 292319120

  • Harvard Lyrics and Other Verses : Being Selections of the Best Verse Written by Harvard Undergraduates Within the Last Ten Years...

    Harvard Lyrics and Other Verses: Being Selections of the Best Verse Written by Harvard Undergraduates Within the Last Ten

    • UPC: 938522548

  • Best Practices for Supporting and Expanding Undergraduate Research in Chemistry

    9780841232846

    • UPC: 250639263

  • With the Best Intentions. a Tale of Undergraduate Life at Cambridge.

    With the Best Intentions. a Tale of Undergraduate Life at

    • UPC: 973325499

  • Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice : An Introduction

    Ethnography is a way to tap the deep undercurrents in a community through a process of gathering, analyzing, and sharing data. The author informs clergy on how they can use it to give themselves ears

    • UPC: 8066673

  • UX Salon 2014 - From lost tribes to engaged users: Ethnography and UX / Elad Ben Elul

    MAPPING PEOPLE: An Ethnographic Case Study of Ikea Shoppers

    Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway