Tag: Ethnographic

Free Download E. Kofi Agorsah, "Maroon Heritage: Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives"
English | 2000 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 9768125101 | PDF | 12,7 mb
As a collection of conference papers (presented at the University of West Indies, Mona, October 18-19, 1991), Maroon Heritage is intended to reinforce a dialogue that is at once intercultural and interdisciplinary. Two Jamaican Maroon Chiefs, Colonel Harris from Moore Town and former Colonel Wright from Accompong, participated with contributions on various aspects of the history and culture of their respective communities.

Free Download Elizabeth Dimock, "Women, Mission and Church in Uganda: Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s "
English | ISBN: 0367275341 | 2019 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1168 KB
This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire. Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities, the gender relations in those societies and relations between the British Protectorate administration and Ugandan Christian women are all explored in detail. The analysis is offset by the author’s experience of working in Uganda at the close of British Protectorate status in the 1960s, employed by the Uganda Government Education Department in a school founded by the Uganda Mission.

Free Download Lee Cabatingan, "Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Creating Supportive Research Experiences"
English | ISBN: 1032515317 | 2024 | 268 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned in real time through participation in a supportive community of practice.

Free Download Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Creating Supportive Research Experiences
by Lee Cabatingan, Susan Bibler Coutin
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032515317 | 283 Pages | True PDF | 3.68 MB

Free Download Ben Bolling, "It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon"
English | ISBN: 078647694X | 2014 | 216 pages | EPUB | 760 KB
This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego’s Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer.

Free Download Shivangi Narayan, "Predictive Policing and The Construction of The ‘Criminal’: An Ethnographic Study of Delhi Police "
English | ISBN: 3031401018 | 2023 | 147 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides a cultural investigation of the police in India and how it uses data and algorithmic tools for crime mapping.The book draws on an ethnographic study of Delhi Police’s hotspot mapping endeavour. It provides a sociological investigation of the police in India and how they use data and algorithmic tools for crime mapping. It discusses how ‘criminals’ are constructed in these systems, typically, the marginalised residents of slums and immigrant colonies. It explores how the algorithm reifies existing assumptions and prejudices about ‘criminals’ as artificial intelligence systems are deeply intertwined with the culture and beliefs of those who make and use them. It pays special attention to the discriminatory practices of relevant police officers and how this ‘predictive’ policing perpetuates harm to the most marginalised. This book contributes to discussions around big data and surveillance studies broadly.

Free Download Lucio De Capitani, "Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing "
English | ISBN: 3031387031 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.

Free Download Sea-Time: An Ethnographic Adventure
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032576065 | 241 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard fieldwork in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time. Change over time and the experience of time on board are organising themes throughout the text. They are contextualised with accounts of transformation in the regulation of the shipping industry and technological innovation.

Free Download Dori-Michelle Beeler, "An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain"
English | ISBN: 1443899526 | 2016 | 225 pages | PDF | 991 KB
An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain is the result of 14 months of ethnographic research. This study, while filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, contributes an ethnographic portrayal of a particular groups construction of well-being. Contributing to medical anthropology, the research findings demonstrate culturally situated ideas and practices related to health wherein the intersubjective nature of healing is a constitutive element for well-being. The distinctions of this are specific to culture and environment, broadening how spirituality and well-being are conceptualized anthropologically. In addition, this book offers a framework for the commoditization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), a process where products become a simple commodity. For Reiki practice, this results in spirituality being out of place in the healthcare market. The book will be of interest to academics interested in CAM research and Reiki practitioners alike.

Free Download Robert Jon Peterson, "Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership: An Ethnographic Case Study of Samoa’s Talavou Clan"
English | ISBN: 1498568262 | 2020 | 128 pages | EPUB | 493 KB
Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership focuses on Native and Indigenous leadership as an expression of a lived experience–as seen, felt, and heard–from the perspectives provided by Native Pacific Islanders, Polynesians, and, more specifically, Samoans from the Talavou clan. Central to this study is the question: What themes and elements influence Samoan leadership and how might these leaders provide others, elsewhere, with a different model of leadership, to reduce the inequitable effects of capitalism’s insatiable hunger for more power and material gain, so that all people on planet Earth might thrive?