This article explores my recent experience of teaching as a visiting faculty member at the Centre for Ethics at a medical University in Mangalore. My teaching and research has emerged through years as a therapist collecting stories. Stories of fact emerge through relationships and are written through experience before being presented as ‘ways of doing, writing and reading research’ From my expe...

The author discusses the application of the concepts of objectivity and subjectivity in ethnographic theory and research, and finds that one kind of subjectivity, that of applying a particular perspective to ethnography, is central and inevitable. Today, we acknowledge that objectivity is relative to a given perspective or preunderstanding, but the applied perspective must compete with other pe...

Thomas David Barton provides an overview of practitioner ethnography, a research approach that provides practitioners with a way of exploring the culture of their workplace. He compares practitioner and traditional ethnography and looks at the pros and cons of the method.

I was pleasantly surprised to be sent this particular book to review. I was not overly familiar with the concept of photovoice – it is much better known and utilised in the USA and other parts of the world than the UK although the charity ‘PhotoVoice’ has had a presence in London since 1998. They recently (2014) launched a new website, membership scheme and brand identity – see http://www.photo...

in some anecdotal sources, reports on defect of women`s faith is quoted. existence of such hadiths and inappropriate behavior of some men with women in islamic societies is become a pretext which triggered the islamic opponents and claim that islamic laws are against women. the precise study of exact meanings of words and concepts of these hadiths will eliminate misgivings about islam and women...

A set of basic beliefs about others' minds and behavior, referred to as folk psychology or theory of mind, is often discussed as if it were the same the world over. Yet, certainly variation in folk psychology exists. This article compares several aspects of European American theory of mind with other cultural models, as suggested by experiments and ethnographies, with the purpose of illuminatin...