Tag: Ethnography

Free Download Jonathan Taee, "The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan "
English | ISBN: 1785333941 | 2017 | 242 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

Free Download Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
by Rodrigo Muñoz-González
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032847557 | 190 Pages | True PDF | 3 MB

Free Download The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions
by Carola Erika Lorea and Rohit Singh
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1438494831 | 382 Pages | PDF | 7.65 MB

Free Download Street Youth in Canada: An Ethnography of Adversity and Artifice
by Mark S. Dolson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032509228 | 171 Pages | True PDF | 15.2 MB

Free Download Samuel C. Heilman, "When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son"
English | ISBN: 0520219651 | 2001 | 271 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Samuel Heilman’s eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses the boundary between the academic and the religious, the personal and the general, reflecting Heilman’s changing roles as social scientist, bereaved son, and observant Jew. Not only describing but explaining the cultural meaning behind Jewish practices and traditions, this extraordinary book shows what is particular and what is universal about Jewish experiences of death, bereavement, mourning, and their aftermath.

Free Download Darin Weinberg, "On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory"
English | ISBN: 1478030828 | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction. Here, he offers a new theorization of addiction in which he breaks down these contradictions and incompatibilities, calling into question the taken-for-granted distinction between the "biological" and the "social." To the extent that it is understood as a loss of self-control over one’s behavior, addiction, Weinberg contends, requires a supple theoretical framework that provides for movements into and out of self-control, for the social and natural processes that influence these movements, for the historical contexts within which they occur, and for the ethical ramifications of taking them seriously. To create this framework, Weinberg brings together history, ethnography, and critical theory as well as the clinical and social sciences. In this way, Weinberg takes a more holistic approach to examining the fundamental nature and ethics of addiction.

Free Download Rasmus Rodineliussen, "Underwater Worlds: An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life "
English | ISBN: 3031633695 | 2024 | 270 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book investigates relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. It introduces the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land. The study focuses on the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren, using Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the connection point. Throughout the book, the author explores how human practices over time have had devastating effects on marine life and continue to have so today. The book engages with the marine world through underwater ethnography to provide a perspective on water from below the surface. In this endeavor, it tracks marine scientists and trash scuba divers who are jointly invested in tracking human maltreatment of water and finding solutions for treating water differently in the future. It follows the scientists on expeditions at sea and to their laboratories in order to learn about their methods and relations to underwater worlds. Together with the trash scuba divers, we will dive into the dark murky waters around Stockholm―experiencing what it is like to move below water, among sharp and toxic waste, without any visibility. The work of creating a knowing and caring relationship between humans and water is of key importance to both scientists and divers. Therefore, one of the main parts of this book is to analyze how, and if, this relationship can be created: via social media, images, installations, or other means.

Free Download Janice M. Irvine, "Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0472055380 | PDF | pages: 349 | 5.8 mb
Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures-ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California-helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the United States. Irvine demonstrates how the social scientists who told the stories of these marginalized groups represented an early challenge to then-dominant narratives of scientific racism, prefiguring the academic fields of gender, ethnic, sexuality, and queer studies in key ways. In recounting the social histories of certain American outsiders, Irvine identifies an American paradox by which social differences are both despised and desired, and she describes the rise of an outsider capitalism that integrates difference into American society by marketing it.

Free Download Deborah Puccio-Den, "Mafiacraft: An Ethnography of Deadly Silence"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1912808250 | PDF | pages: 295 | 2.9 mb
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don’t know the Mafia. I’ve never seen it." Mafiosi have often reacted this way to questions from journalists and law enforcement. Social scientists who study the Mafia usually try to pin down what it "really is," thus fusing their work with their object. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses not on answering "What is the Mafia?" but on the ontological, moral, and political effects of posing the question itself. Her starting point is that Mafia is not a readily nameable social fact but a problem of thought produced by the absence of words. Puccio-Den approaches covert activities using a model of "Mafiacraft," which inverts the logic of witchcraft. If witchcraft revolves on the lethal power of speech, Mafiacraft depends on the deadly strength of silence. How do we write an ethnography of phenomena that cannot be named? Puccio-Den approaches this task with a fascinating anthropology of silence, breaking new ground for the study of the world’s most famous criminal organization.

Free Download David Fetterman, "Ethnography: Step-by-Step "
English | ISBN: 076191384X | | 176 pages | EPUB | 735 KB
Already an indispensable resource for doing ethnographic research, this updated edition takes a step forward – the Internet. It includes information on conducting searches about topics or sites, collecting census data, conducting interviews by chatting and videoconferencing, sharing notes and pictures about research sites, debating issues with colleagues on listservers and in online journals, and downloading useful data collection and analysis software.