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Karaoke Nights - An Ethnographic Rhapsody

by Rob Drew

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 States that karaoke creates its own culture, while reflecting much about the wider culture and the place of popular music as a media form. This book presents an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional rollercoaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer.
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Travels With Ernest - Crossing The Literary/Sociological Divide

by Ernest Lockridge e Laurel Richardson

131,18€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the interplay between literary and ethnographic writing.
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Methodology Of The Heart - Evoking Academic And Daily Life

by Ronald J. Pelias

51,26€ + 10% CARD

 Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. This work features essays that poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field.
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Torch Singing - Performing Resistance And Desire From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf

by Stacy Holman Jones

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 With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singingâ€"describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.
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Life Online - Researching Real Experience In Virtual Space

by Annette N. Markham

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 In this text, Annette Markham adopts an ethnographic approach to understanding Internet users by immersing herself in online reality. She finds that to understand how people experience the Internet, she must learn how to be embodied there.
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In Search Of Naunny'S Grave - Age, Class, Gender And Ethnicity In An American Family

by Nick Trujillo

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 Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, communication researcher NickTrujillo learns how family members use stories to define the family's sense of itself and create collective views on intergenerational relations, social history, gender, class, and ethnicity in this experimental ethnography.
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A Methodology Of The Heart - Evoking Academic And Daily Life

by Ronald J. Pelias

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 Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. This work features essays that poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field.
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Reading Auschwitz

by Mary Lagerwey

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 This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz.
Reading Auschwitz

by Mary Lagerwey

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 This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz.
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Composing Ethnography - Alternative Forms Of Qualitative Writing

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 What is it like to have lived with bulimia for most of your life? To have a mother who is retarded? To fight a health insurance company in order to survive breast cancer? This title tackles questions such as these. It demonstrates how ethnographic data can be converted into memorable experiences that readers can use in the classroom.
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Opportunity House - Ethnographic Stories Of Mental Retardation

by Michael V. Angrosino

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 By weaving together a life-histories approach to ethnography and with a concept of culture, the author presents an intimate and complex picture of Opportunity House, a highly functional community of mentally-retarded adults.
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Fiction And Social Research - By Ice Or Fire

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 This volume brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. The book is arranged into four areas of concern: representation, subjectivity, critique, and postmodern discourse.
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Torch Singing - Performing Resistance And Desire From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf

by Stacy Holman Jones

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 With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singingâ€"describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.
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Performing Femininity - Rewriting Gender Identity

by Lesa Lockford

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 As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect, Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. This experimental autoethnography provides a model to the ethnographer and rewards the student of gender studies with a rare perspective.
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Karaoke Nights - An Ethnographic Rhapsody

by Rob Drew

56,77€ + 10% CARD

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 States that karaoke creates its own culture, while reflecting much about the wider culture and the place of popular music as a media form. This book presents an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional rollercoaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer.
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In Search Of Naunny'S Grave - Age, Class, Gender And Ethnicity In An American Family

by Nick Trujillo

35,14€ + 10% CARD

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 Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, communication researcher NickTrujillo learns how family members use stories to define the family's sense of itself and create collective views on intergenerational relations, social history, gender, class, and ethnicity in this experimental ethnography.
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Torch Singing - Performing Resistance And Desire From Billie Holiday To Edith Piaf

by Stacy Holman Jones

52,71€ + 10% CARD

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 With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singingâ€"describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.
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Reading Auschwitz

by Mary Lagerwey

52,71€ + 10% CARD

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 This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz.
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The Ethnographic I - A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography

by Carolyn Ellis

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 Gives useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this form of research.
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Between Gay And Straight - Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation

by Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy

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 This is a study of a gay community, a narrative of personal development and change and an exploration of the use of friendship in conducting research. The study explores sexuality, marriage, lifestyles, and the meanings of friendship.
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Travels With Ernest - Crossing The Literary/Sociological Divide

by Ernest Lockridge e Laurel Richardson

148,71€ + 10% CARD

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 Explores the interplay between literary and ethnographic writing.
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A Methodology Of The Heart - Evoking Academic And Daily Life

by Ronald J. Pelias

148,71€ + 10% CARD

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 Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. This work features essays that poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field.
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Writing The New Ethnography

by H. L. Goodall Jr.

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 This text provides a foundational understanding of the writing process associated with innovative forms of ethnographic writing. It offers advice, examples, and exercises for every step in the ethnographic writng process, including field observations, notes, narrative development, and editing.
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Creating The Jewish Future

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 Since World War II, Jews have experienced unprecedented acceptance and assimilation. As outside threats diminish more complex issues arise. This volume considers the direction the Jewish community will take in the future.
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