Tag: Ethnography

Free Download Michael Bourdillon, "The Shona Peoples: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Shona, with Special Reference to Their Religion"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0869221884 | PDF | pages: 401 | 161.6 mb
This is an updated and revised edition of a book which is regarded as the best synthesis of ethnographic research so far done among the Shona. Based on the author’s own fieldwork in the Mount Darwin district of Zimbabwe, it recognizes religion as the focal point of the rich and complex culture of the Shona peoples.

Free Download Lucinda Carspecken, "Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research "
English | ISBN: 1498543170 | 2017 | 246 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women "coming home" to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground between Dōgen’s Zen teachings and Habermas’s critical theory, an Albanian Sufi community in Michigan and interactions between humans and the natural world. It also includes theoretical writing on the place of love in social analysis, whether this involves relationships between researchers and participants or the nature of human connection itself. The authors argue that social research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one, and that fellow feeling is an essential component of making sense of the world.

Free Download Saskia Huc-Hepher, "French London: A blended ethnography of a migrant city "
English | ISBN: 152614333X | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Who are the people that make up London’s French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is ‘Frenchness’ played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? And what impact has Brexit had on French Londoners’ sense of belonging, identity and embeddedness? French London offers an unprecedented perspective on the everyday lived experience of French migrants in London. Based on years of immersive on-land and on-line empirical enquiry, the book uncovers the motivations underlying mobility from France and the appeal of London as a long-term home.

Free Download Sociomaterial Practices in Medical Work: An Ethnography in the Operating Room by Attila Bruni
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 141 Pages | ISBN : 3031448030 | 2.6 MB
This book presents a sociomaterial perspective on work and organizational practices within the operating room. Looking at medical work from a sociological perspective and drawing on ethnographic observations conducted in a hospital’s operating block, this book analyses the entanglements of humans and technologies in the execution of everyday activities. It highlights how the sociomateriality of work and organizational practices manifests in the encounters between operators and material artifacts and in the way objects and technologies participate in processes and practices of organizational communication. Objects and technologies are also shaped by these very practices, giving rise to a recursive relationship wherein technology, communication, and organizing are intertwined.

Free Download Austin C. Okigbo, "Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir"
English | ISBN: 1498510108 | 2016 | 236 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The study interrogates as to understand the bigger picture of HIV/AIDS using the approach of microanalysis of music event. It places the choir, and the cultural and political issues addressed in their music in the broader context of South Africa’s public health and political history, and the global culture and politics of AIDS.

Free Download Alan Macfarlane, "Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies "
English | ISBN: 103240504X | 2022 | 168 pages | PDF | 1479 KB
Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies: McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by a leading British social anthropologist and historian, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are a part of the series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences and the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three of the world’s most eminent sociologists and anthropologists – McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch.

Free Download Henrike A. Hoogenraad, "African-Australian Marriage Migration An Ethnography of (Un)happiness "
English | ISBN: 9004462759 | 2021 | 228 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In African Australian Marriage Migration: An Ethnography of (Un)happiness, Henrike Hoogenraad offers an account of journeys of marriage migration among couples consisting of an Australian woman and a migrant man from the continent of Africa.

Free Download Care in a Time of Crisis: An Ethnography of Coercive Practices in Italian Acute Mental Health Provision by Eleonora Rossero
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 3031344170 | 6.2 MB
The book presents the results of an ethnographic study examining the post-deinstitutionalized organization and provision of acute mental health care in Italy. While the achievements of the "Basaglia law" which imposed the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy in 1978 have been well-documented, this book sheds fresh light on its aftermath and possible continuing influence. The author examines two Italian regions – Piedmont and Friuli Venezia Giulia (internationally known to be the first Italian region to close down asylums) – respectively as representatives of the ‘restraint’ and ‘no-restraint’ models. Within each context, participant observation and discursive interviews have been conducted in Mental Health Centres (CSM) and acute psychiatric wards (SPDC) to explore care and coercive practices, as well as notions of ‘good care’ and values embedded in everyday working activities of these services. Situated suggestions for possible improvement of today’s acute mental health care are also proposed.

Free Download Katherine Verdery, "Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police"
English | 2014 | pages: 311 | ISBN: 6155225990 | PDF | 44,0 mb
Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party members. The people the secret police recruited or interrogated were threatened so effectively that some never told even their spouses, and many have held their tongues to this day, long after the regimes fell.With the end of communism, many of the newly established governments―among them Romania’s―opened their secret police archives. From those files, as well as her personal memories, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate. Secrets and Truths is not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing "security state" of the neoliberal present.

Free Download Iain Walker, "Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367132877, 1138241016 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 4.2 mb
The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world.