Ethnographic methods sites college of liberal arts and sciences. Languaculture is a term meaning a language that includes not only elements such as grammar and vocabulary, but also past knowledge, local and cultural information, habits and behaviours. The professional stranger by agar michael abebooks. Publication date 1980 topics ethnology field work, ethnology methodology publisher. The professional stranger, by michael agar, was by far my favorite book out of the ones that i have read for this class. The term was created by the american anthropologist michael agar. Agar, american ethnologist on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for. An informal introduction to ethnography paperback jun 21 1996.
Understanding the culture of conversation, by michael h. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, agar shows how the fundamentals endure even. An informal introduction to ethnography 0 2 by michael h. Agar has been doing ethnography for many years with a variety of people including heroin addicts, villagers insouth. An informal introduction to ethnography, author michael agar, year1980 michael agar. Author of language shock, the professional stranger, angel dust, an ethnographic study of pcp users, ripping and running, ethnography and cognition, independents declared, speaking of ethnography michael agar open library. An informal introduction to ethnography in books, nonfiction ebaythe professional stranger service design books may 26, 2010. Languaculture is a supposed improvement on the term linguaculture coined by the american linguistic anthropologist paul friedrich. Lex alcohol and drug abuse research center mclean hospital and harvard university in this book michael agar elucidates his. Visualizza tutti i 4 formati e le edizioni nascondi altri formati ed edizioni.
Lex alcohol and drug abuse research center mclean hospital and harvard university in this book michael agar. His books include ripping and running, the professional stranger, angel dust, speaking of ethnography, independents declared, and language shock. This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive chapter that brings ethnography up to date and aims it toward the next century at a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, agar shows how the fundamentals endure even as. An informal introduction to ethnography, paperback by agar, michael h. Agar and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. How to ask for a study in qualitatisch michael agar, 1999. He also thinks that the traditional communities have disappeared, which were the focus of anthropology up until now. Click to read more about the professional stranger. Contemporary discussions of ethnography are loaded with choices, primarily eitheror options. Michael agar is the author of ripping and running and the professional stranger, among others. This article summarizes a keynote lecture presented to the advances in qualitative methods conference.
This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive chapter that brings ethnography uptodate and aims it toward the next century. The professional stranger by michael agar, 1980, academic press edition, in english. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, agar shows how. His recent books include speaking of ethnography, independents declared, and language shock. Understanding the culture of conversation the interaction between language, culture and daily behaviour for insiders and outsiders. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, agar shows how the fundamentals endure even as they adapt to a world unimagined when the research perspective developed more than 100 years ago. A variety of research approaches are now summarized under the term qualitative, yet it is not clear what such approaches have in common.
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