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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... Lexington work , heroin had declined on the streets and the use of methadone had increased . Through informal ... ( Lexington ) and apply it in the streets . The Lexington material , by and large , held up fairly well , even though it was ...
... Lexington work , heroin had declined on the streets and the use of methadone had increased . Through informal ... ( Lexington ) and apply it in the streets . The Lexington material , by and large , held up fairly well , even though it was ...
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... Lexington hospital at about the same time . Although both of us were graduate students working on our Ph.D. theses , Dick's was in the tradition of the sociology of deviance . The amazing thing about Dick is that he actually came to ...
... Lexington hospital at about the same time . Although both of us were graduate students working on our Ph.D. theses , Dick's was in the tradition of the sociology of deviance . The amazing thing about Dick is that he actually came to ...
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... Lexington study . This isn't the best example , since I was working in a place remote from the actual events I was interested in , but it will hopefully give you the general idea . When I first arrived in Lexington , I spent time in the ...
... Lexington study . This isn't the best example , since I was working in a place remote from the actual events I was interested in , but it will hopefully give you the general idea . When I first arrived in Lexington , I spent time in the ...
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The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography Michael Agar No preview available - 1996 |
The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography Michael Agar No preview available - 1996 |
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