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In his review, Michael Silverstein presented a critical and analytical perspective on the ethnographic project undertaken in the book. Silverstein acknowledged the authors' innovative approach to memory ethnography, which departs from traditional studies of public monuments and ritual commemorations to focus on the aggregated historical consciousness of individuals affected by urban renewal in ...
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, ethnographic research methods began to be widely used by communication scholars. As the purpose of ethnography is to describe and interpret the shared and learned patterns of values, behaviors, beliefs, and language of a culture-sharing group, Harris, (1968), also Agar (1980) note that ethnography is both a ...
Sarah L. Thornton (born 1965) is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. [1] Thornton has authored four books and many articles about artists, the art market, bodies, people, culture, technology and design, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures, [2] and ethnographic research methods.
James P. Spradley (1933–1982) was a social scientist and a professor of anthropology at Macalester College. [1] Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research including The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society (1972), Deaf Like Me (1979), The Ethnographic Interview (1979), and Participant Observation (1980).
The concept of thick description has become a cornerstone of ethnographic research, emphasizing the importance of context in understanding cultural practices. Geertz’s ideas also laid the groundwork for what would later be known as symbolic or interpretive anthropology , a school of thought that has had a lasting impact on the study of culture.
Anderson's contributions to qualitative research methods also include his co-authorship of the fourth edition of classic ethnographic methods textbook, entitled, Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis, which was published in 2005. The book was reviewed as an "excellent" book that "introduced the reader to the ...
Critical ethnography stems from both anthropology and the Chicago school of sociology. [4] Following the movements for civil rights of the 1960s and 1970s some ethnographers became more politically active and experimented in various ways to incorporate emancipatory political projects into their research. [5]
The emerging methodology used documentary historical sources and ethnographic methods. Among the scholars working on the cases was Latin Americanist Howard F. Cline , who was commissioned to work on Florida Indians and Jicarilla Apache and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin , Director of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Research Project and founder of the ...