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- SAGE Research Methods Core This link opens in a new windowSAGE Research Methods Core is a tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and other areas of research.
- Advances in Quantitative Ethnography The contributions in this volume come from diverse fields and perspectives, and present the studies on advantages of using quantitative ethnography methods and techniques in a number of different domains and contexts, including ethnography and statistics, human interpretation and machine processing,
- Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation This book is an excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, using familiar and not-so-familiar cultures as cases. The book covers participant observation and ethnographic interviewing, both short and long term. These methodologies are open to problems such as lack of communication, depression, hostility, danger, and moral and ethical dilemmas—problems that are usually sanitized for publication and ignored in the curriculum
- Ethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) Ethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, conceptualizing, and critically assessing ethnographic research and its resultant texts
- Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 5th ed. Written in Russ Bernard's unmistakable conversational style, this guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Watching Closely: A Guide to Ethnographic Observation Watching Closely provides a practical, interactive guide for improving one's powers of observation, synthesizing data, and tapping into more visual elements of observation, such as photography and sketching, encouraging both a more creative and more scientific approach to fieldwork. Geared towards ethnographic field work, the book includes nine exercises for practicing and strengthening observational skills. Watching Closely will appeal to students and scholars of the social and behavioral sciences, as well as designers, architects, and anyone engaged in fieldwork.
- Ethnographic Methods In this comprehensive, yet concise introduction, Karen O'Reilly introduces the reader to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents. She invites the reader to engage in reflexive and creative research that draws critically and creatively from the full range of qualitative methods.
- Cloud Security for Anthropologists (Our ethnographic data is in the cloud, but our heads are not) Alexander Taylor is a PhD candidate with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His research explores how technologies of data storage intersect with planetary scales of security and dystopian digital futures in the data centre industry. In this anthro{dendum} blog post, he explores some of the security implications of cloud computing for social science research practice.
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