The ethnographer's toolkit

Description:

"In addition to the traditional use of participant observation, ethnographic researchers have developed a variety of other methods to obtain information. Visual anthropology has had a long tradition of audio, film and still photographs, now supplemented with video and computer multimedia techniques. Focused group interviews are now regularly used by ethnographers. Elicitation techniques - such as triads, pile sorts and freelists - were developed by cognitive anthropologists as a systematic way of understanding the cultural categories defined by members of a group. In this brief volume, these three sets of methods are explained in simple, practical language."--Jacket.

subjects: Field work,  Ethnology,  Evaluation research (Social action programs),  Social policy,  Research,  Methodology,  School districts,  Public policy,  Evaluation,  Political planning,  Fieldwork,  Audio-visual aids,  Focused group interviewing,  Social networks,  Spatial behavior,  Focus groups,  Methods,  Ethnologie,  Méthodologie,  73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology,  Methodologie,  Etnografie,  Wetenschappelijke technieken,  Spatial analysis (statistics),  Ethnology--fieldwork,  Ethnology--research,  Ethnology--methodology,  Social planning,  School districts--evaluation,  Gn345 .u85 1998,  305.8/007/2,  Literary collections