Socio-anthropological thought: method, field research, ethnography

Cultural Exchange in a Heterogeneous Research Field: Approaching Scientific Culture with Anthropological Thought

Doing Reflexive Research in a ‘native’ Field

The relationship between the ethnographic text and cultural background of the anthropologist hailing from a culture different than the people he studied has already been well discussed in the wide range of anthropological literature. This paper explores the relationship between ethnographic text and the native anthropologist that has seldom been discussed so far. The paper also discusses the pr...

Project Ethnography: An Anthropological Approach to Assessing Digital Library Services

OFTENLIBRARIES TRY TO ASSESS DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICE for their user populations in comprehensive terms thatjudge its overall success or failure. This article’s key assumption is that the people involved must be understood before services can be assessed, especially if evaluators and developers intend to improve a digital library product. Its argument is simply that anthropology can provide the ...

Ethnography: traditional and criticalist conceptions of a qualitative research method.

Teaching family medicine residents how to conduct research is increasingly being seen as a crucial component of their training, in part as a means of strengthening the discipline and in part to improve their practices. Whereas quantitative methods once dominated approaches to medical research, the application of qualitative methods is seen as an effective way to study issues in primary care.1-3...

Qualitative research methodologies: ethnography.

Ethnography is the study of social interactions, behaviours, and perceptions that occur within groups, teams, organisations, and communities. Its roots canbe traced back to anthropological studies of small, rural (andoften remote) societies thatwereundertaken in the early 1900s, when researchers such as Bronislaw Malinowski and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown participated in these societies over long pe...