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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... junkies to decide you could be trusted , and even then there was a period of time when the questions you asked were carefully watched , and answers were often abbreviated or loaded with a heavy dose of caution . I began to understand ...
... junkies to decide you could be trusted , and even then there was a period of time when the questions you asked were carefully watched , and answers were often abbreviated or loaded with a heavy dose of caution . I began to understand ...
Page 66
... junkies , read ethnographies and junkie autobiographies , and came up with a list of things that a family might do if they suspected that one of their members was using heroin . He came up with a variety of things . He asked how ...
... junkies , read ethnographies and junkie autobiographies , and came up with a list of things that a family might do if they suspected that one of their members was using heroin . He came up with a variety of things . He asked how ...
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... junkies talked about events in ways that I didn't understand . Their accounts of things were different from mine . I narrowed the focus to some street events , and then did informal inter- views about them . Since I was distant from ...
... junkies talked about events in ways that I didn't understand . Their accounts of things were different from mine . I narrowed the focus to some street events , and then did informal inter- views about them . Since I was distant from ...
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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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