Field Projects in Anthropology - A Student Handbook

Politics & Social Sciences

Angrosino, Michael V.

Crane, Julia, G.

Sociology

Scott,Foresman and Company

Talking about Cultural Diversity in Your Church gives classes, workshops, or small groups the opportunity to discuss issues of multiculturalism. Presenting what culture means in the first part of the book shows how understanding and misunderstandings of culture affect American society. The heart of the book is eleven case studies with discussion questions. These concrete cases allow participants to see about how their understandings of culture have real world implications. And the discussion questions let participants talk in meaningful ways about these difficult issues.

Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church: Gifts and Challenges

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

AltaMira Press

In the Great Commission, Jesus told his followers to 'go and make disciples of all nations'. But today, you don't need to be a missionary in another country to come across different cultures. In your neighborhood, school, workplace, and shopping area you probably run across many people with backgrounds vastly different from your own. To have an effective ministry in the U.S. today, outside or inside the church, Christians need to be aware of how people's culture affects the ways they think and live. Talking about Cultural Diversity in Your Church gives classes, workshops, or small groups the opportunity to discuss issues of multiculturalism. Presenting what culture means in the first part of the book shows how understanding and misunderstandings of culture affect American society. This beginning section encourages readers to be aware of their own cultural assumptions and how these assumptions color relations with others. It then highlights special skills for communicating between cultures and highlights the special challenges for religion in a pluralistic society. But the heart of the book is eleven case studies with discussion questions. These concrete cases allow participants to see about how their understandings of culture have real world implications. And the discussion questions let participants talk in meaningful ways about these difficult issues. If you want a useful discussion about multiculturalism in your congregation, you should take a look at Talking about Cultural Diversity in Your Church. Visit the author's web page

Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V. Angrosino's riveting and de-mystifying account offers an insider's picture of the lives of the inhabitants of Opportunity House. Using the narrative device of a dozen fictional short stories told in the voices of various community members as well as that of the researcher, Angrosino weaves a life-histories approach to ethnography together with an innovative culture concept to tackle the complexities of representing marginalized subgroups. As opposed to traditional clinical or statistical studies, which have insufficiently conveyed the subjective and experiential perspectives of retarded people themselves, Angrosino presents an intimate and complex picture of a highly functioning community with its cast of entrepreneurs, bullies, victims, and do-gooders. This wonderfully readable and captivating account is therefore an important resource for those interested in mental illness and disability, as well as a model for those experimenting with forms of ethnographic writing.

Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation (Ethnographic Alternatives) (Volume 2)

Social Sciences

Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V. Angrosino's riveting and de-mystifying account offers an insider's picture of the lives of the inhabitants of Opportunity House. Using the narrative device of a dozen fictional short stories told in the voices of various community members as well as that of the researcher, Angrosino weaves a life-histories approach to ethnography together with an innovative culture concept to tackle the complexities of representing marginalized subgroups. As opposed to traditional clinical or statistical studies, which have insufficiently conveyed the subjective and experiential perspectives of retarded people themselves, Angrosino presents an intimate and complex picture of a highly functioning community with its cast of entrepreneurs, bullies, victims, and do-gooders. This wonderfully readable and captivating account is therefore an important resource for those interested in mental illness and disability, as well as a model for those experimenting with forms of ethnographic writing.

Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation (Volume 2) (Ethnographic Alternatives, 2)

Literature & Fiction

Documents of Interaction: Biography, Autobiography and Life History in Social Science Perspective (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA MONOGRAPHS SOCIAL SCIENCES)

Univ Pr of Florida

A prominent anthropologist presents behavioral and social science concepts and strategies that all health professionals can use in their clinical practice.

A Health Practitioner's Guide to the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Praeger

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Anthropology Essentials (Essentials Study Guides)

Anthropology

Research & Education Association

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College & High School

Students better understand ethnographic methods through experience rather than lecture. This theme of learning-by-doing permeates throughout Doing Cultural Anthropology. Each chapter in this outstanding collection covers the fundamentals of a different data-collection technique. In addition to providing an overview of a particular technique, each author describes his or her own research project utilizing that technique. Readers are then provided with a project at the end of each chapter, promoting hands-on exposure to what ethnographers actually do. The chapters are not written as scholarly treatises; instead they give readers just enough information to appreciate the technique and to practice it for themselves. Readers of all levels and from any discipline that uses ethnography will benefit from the clear, accessible style.

Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection

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