Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations… — Theodore C. Bestor Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you… — James P. Spradley Copy Share Image
I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is true that one generally needs to speak to the members of the key audience for a product or service.… — Patricia L. Sunderland Copy Share Image
Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's… — Michael Warren Copy Share Image