The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to EthnographyThis edition of an introductory text opens with a chapter that brings ethnography up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar shows how the fundamentals endure. |
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| Title | The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography Studies in anthropology Studies in anthropology: Academic Press |
| Authors | Michael Agar, Michael H. Agar |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Academic Press, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 012043850X, 9780120438501 |
| Length | 227 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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