Etnographic Theory: Themes and Topics

COURSE FLOW

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Topics

Preparation

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Introduction to the Lecture

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Methodology and the Philosophy of Science I

Bhaskar, Roy. (1998). The Possibility of Naturalism a Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences. London, New York: Routledge. 

Foucault, Michel. (2005). The Order of Things an Archaeology of the Human Sciences. London, New York: Routledge. 

Keat, Russell, Urry, John. (2010). Social Theory as Science. London, Boston: Routledge. 

Kuhn, Thomas S. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, London. The University of Chicago Press. 

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Quantitative Research Methods in Social Sciences: Survey

Gideon, Lidor. (2012). Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences. London: Springer. 

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Quantitative Content Analysis and Ethnographic Content Analysis

Riffe, Daniel, Lacy, Stephen, Fico, Frederick G. (2005). Analyzing Media Messages Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research. Mahwah, New Jersey, London: Lawrence Erbaum Associates.

Altheide, David L. (1987). Ethnographic Content Analysis. Qualitative Sociology, 10(1), 65-77.

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Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences: Oral History, Archival Research, Focus Group

Abrams, Lynn. (2010). Oral History Theory. London, New York: Routledge. 

Bloor, Michael, Frankland, Jane, Thomas, Michelle, Robson, Kate. (2002). Focus Groups in Social Research. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE

Leanardo, Micaela. (1987). Oral History as Ethnographic Encounter. The Oral History Review, 15(1), 1-20.

Rodriquez, Cherly, Baber, Yvette. (2007). Reconstructing a Community through Archival Research. (Ed.) Michael V. Angrosino, Doing Cultural Anthropology (63-71). Illinois: Waveland Press. 

Rosaldo, Renato. (1980). Doing Oral History. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 4, 89-99.

Wolff, Stephen. (2004). Analysis of Document and Records. (Eds) Uwe Flick, Ernst von Kardoff, Ines Steinke, A Companion to Qualitative Research (284-290). London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE.  

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Ethnography: an Introduction

Forsey, Martin Gerar. (2010). Ethnography as Participant Listening. Ethnography, 11(4), 558-572.

Ingold, Tim. (2008). Anthropology is not Ethnography. Procedings of the British Academy, 154, 69-92.

Ingold, Tim. (2014). That’s Enough about Ethnography. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(1), 383-395.

Ingold, Tim. (2017). Anthropology contra Ethnography. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 21-26.

Marcus, George E. (2002). Beyond Malinowski and After Writing Culture: On the Future of Cultural Anthropology and the Predicament of Ethnography. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 13(2), 191-199.

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Midterm

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Classical Ethnography and Participant Observation

Becker, Howard S., Geer, Blanche. (1957). Participant Observation and Interviewing: A Comparison. Human Organization, 16(3), 28-32.

Becker, Howard S. (1958). Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation. American Sociological Review, 23(6), 652-660.

Gluckman, Max. 2006 [1959]. Ethnographic Data in British Social Anthropology. (Eds) T. M. S Evens, Don Handelman, The Manchester School Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (13-22). New York, Oxford: Berghan Books. 

Lowie, Robert H. (1953). Ethnography, Cultural and Social Anthropology. American Anthropologist, 55(4), 527-534.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1932). Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge. 

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Ethnography at Home

Aarnikoivu, Melina. (2016). ‘Not in my Backyard but in my Front Room’: A Review of Insider Ethnography. Tiedepolitiikka, 3, 47-56.

Alvesson, Mats. At-home Ethnography: Struggling with Closeness and Closure. (Eds) Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, Frans Kamsteeg, Organizational Ethnography Studying Complexities of Everyday Life (156-174). Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC: Sage.

Bunzl, Matti. (2004). Boas, Foucault, and the ‘Native Anthropologist’: Notes toward a Neo-Boasian Anthropology, American Anthropologist, 106(3), 435-442.

Davies, Charlotte Aull. (1999). Reflexive Ethnography a Guide to Researching Selves and Others. London, New York: Routledge. 

Halstead, Narmala. (2001). Ethnographic Encounters. Positionings within and outside the Insider Frame. Social Anthropology, 9(3), 307-321. 

Jones, Delmos J. (1995). Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection on ‘Native’ Anthropology. (Ed.) E. L. Cerroni-Long, Insider Anthropology (58-70),  Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

            Lamaison, Pierre, Bourdiue, Pierre. (1986). From Rules to Strategies: an Interview with Pierre Bourdieu. Cultural Anthropology, 1(1), 110-120.

            Cerroni-Long, E. L. (1995). Introduction: Insider or Native Anthropology?. (Ed.) E. L. Cerroni-Long, Insider Anthropology (1-16), Arlington: American Anthropological Association. 

            Narayan, Kirin. (1993).  How Native is a ‘Native’ Anthropologist. American Anthropologist, 95(3), 671-686.

            Wacquant, Loic. (2004). Following Pierre Bourdieu into the Field. Ethnography, 5(4), 387-414.

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Ethnography in the Post-modern Times 

Clifford, James. (1986). Introduction: Partial Truths. (Eds.) James Clifford, George Marcus, Writing Culture the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1-26). Berkeley: University of California Press.  

Marcus, George E. (1986). Afterword: Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers. . James Clifford, George Marcus, Writing Culture the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (262-266). Berkeley: University of California Press.  

Rabinow, Paul. (1986). Representations are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology. James Clifford, George Marcus, Writing Culture the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (234-261). Berkeley: University of California Press.  

Tyler, Stephen. (1986). Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document. James Clifford, George Marcus, Writing Culture the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (122-140). Berkeley: University of California Press.  

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Auto-Ethnography

Berger, Leigh, Ellis, Carolyn. (2008). Composing Autoethnographic Stories. (Ed.) Michael V. Angrosino, Doing Cultural Anthropology (63-71). Illinois: Waveland Press.

Ellis, Carolyn, Adams Tony E., Bochner Arthur P. (2011). Autoethnography: an Overview. Historical Socil Research, 36(4), 273-290.

Hayano, David M. (1979). Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems, and Prospects. Human Organization, 38(1), 99-104.

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Institutional Ethnography

Smith, Dorothy E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography a Sociology for People. Lanham, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Altamira Press.

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Activist Ethnography

Coleman, Lara Montesinos. (2015). Ethnography, Commitment, and Critique: Departing from Activist Scholarship. International Political Sociology, 9, 263-280.

            Harrison, Faye V. (2013). Navigating Feminist Activist Ethnography. (Ed.) Christa  Craven, Dana-Ain Davis, Feminist Activist Ethnography Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America (IX-XV). Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toront, Plymouth: Lexington Books. 

            Ortner, Sherry. (2016). Dark Anthropology and its Others. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(1), 47-73.

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Digital Etnography

Barratt, Monica J. Maddox, Alexia. (2016). Active Engagement with Stigmatized Communities through Digital Ethnography. Qualitative Research, 16(6), 701-719.

Caliandro, Alessandro. (2018). Digital Methods for Ethnography: Analytical Concepts for Ethnographers Exploring Social Media Environments. Journal of Contemporary Etnography, 47(5), 551-578. 

Cardullo, Paul. (2014). Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative and New Media. Visual Studies, 29(1), 107-108.

Murthy, Dhiraj. (2008). Digital Ethnography: an Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research. Sociology, 42(5), 837-855.

Pink, Sarah, Horst, Heather, Postill, John, Hjorth, Larissa, Lewis, Tania, Tacchi, Jo. (2016). Digital Ethnography Principles and Practice. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi: SAGE.

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