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Equation fixations : on the whole and the sum of dollars in foreign exchange /Julie Y. Chu --Changing money in post-Soviet Ukraine /J.A. Dickinson --Dollars and dolores in postwar El Salvador /Ellen Moodie --Hot loans and cold cash in Saigon /Allison Truitt --The smoking wallet : an anthropologist meets transnational tobacco corporations in Malawi /Marty Otan̋ez --What do you want me to do, bang my head against the wall? : reflections on having and not having in the field /Stefan Senders --Circuits of conversion : from 14,000 to 1 /Naeem Inayatullah.

Presents ethnographic research methods along with characteristics (evidential and non-evidential "identities") of an anthropologist that may affect his/her access to information and the quality of data collected. Offers several examples from experiences of field researchers. Considers Muslim North Africa as a region demanding attention to its specific cultural realities. Explores ethics and the role of the ethnographer.

Intro -- Exploring Ethnographic and Non-Ethnographic Approaches of Suicide and Self-Harm -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Fieldwork Strategies on Pro-Self-Harm Virtual Communities -- Living on the Edge of Risk: Representations of Suicide among Students of Vocational Training at the National Police Academy (Brazil) -- Self-Harming Behaviour among a Community Sample of South African Young Adults -- Proposals to Introduce a Tribunal for Assisted Suicide in the UK -- Assisted Suicide and Jewish Law (Halakhah): The Conflict of Quality of Life and Sanctity of Life in the UK -- Tokoku's Suicide and Emerson's Optimism -- Soil: Investigating the Use of Soil and Dirt in the Work of Three Performance Artists -- Visual Healing: A Path towards Forgiveness.

As undergraduate programs in nonprofit management education proliferate, they increasingly incorporate service learning, experiential learning, and an emphasis on inclusiveness and diversity.To effectively face these challenges, such programs would do well to look to cultural anthropology, especially the methods of ethnographic research. Cultural anthropology has far more to offer than a list of behavioral traits about obscure peoples in the world: It offers a methodology for how to learn through experiences, a number of strategies to promote inclusiveness, and a framework that promotes an openness to having one's assumptions challenged. This article provides an analysis of the use and value of ethnographic methods while working for Big Brothers Big Sisters in rural Alaska, followed by recommendations for incorporating anthropological methods and concepts into nonprofit management education.

Although the textualist critique of ethnography has challenged the possibility of science in cultural anthropology, insights provided by that critique are crucial for the further development of a scientific approach in the discipline. The value of the textualist critique of ethnography for the development of scientific ethnology can best be seen through an analogy with archaeology. Just as archaeologists' ability to reconstruct the past has been enhanced, not undermined, by a detailed understanding of archaeological site formation processes, so can ethnologists' ability to understand patterns within and among human societies be enhanced through a better understanding of ethnographic text formation processes. Key elements of the textualist critique of ethnography, including an emphasis on reflexivity, multivocality, and the process of writing ethnography, are great aids in the elucidation of ethnographic text formation processes.

This photo essay uses documentary photography along with ethnographic observations, and in-depth interviews to better understand the experiences of transgender United States military service members.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A history of ethnographic film -- 3. The attributes of ethnogr aphic film -- 4. Making ethnogr aphic film -- 5. The use of ethnogr aphic -- Appendix: A brief descriptive catalog of films -- Bibliography -- Index

The anthropological activity of providing ethnographic descriptions is much like the linguistic activity of providing grammatical descriptions. Both offer rules that account for the occurrence of some phenomena (such as, for instance, particular household types or particular sequences of vocal noises), but at the same time rule others out. How the rules are "discovered" is irrelevant to their status, and their degree of cognitive reality need not be crucial in judging their significance. The rules stand or fall only by their ability to account for linguistic or cultural behavior.

This is a report of a field experience in retrospect. An ethnographic study of black streetcorner men, it was conducted in the early 1970s among the patrons of Jelly's Place, a bar and liquor store on the South Side of Chicago. The 55 men came repeatedly to Jelly's corner and created a local social stratification system. The focus of the study was the way in which they made and remade their local status system in everyday life. This document describes the field work experience which led me to focus on this particular sociological issue and to represent the social dynamics of the group. Adapted from the source document.

AcknowledgementsAbout the Editor and ContributorsIntroduction A Fourt-part Introduction to the Interview: Introducing the Interview; Society, Sociology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview - Edited. Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Part One: Positioning The InterviewThe Interview as a Form of Talking-partnership: Dialectical, Focused, Ambiguous, Special. Nigel Rapport (St Andrews University, UK) Ethnography is Not Participant Observation: Reflections on the Interview as Participatory Qualitative Research. Jenny Hockey (University of Sheffield, UK) and Martin Forsey (University of Western Australia, Australia) Finding and Mining the Talk: Negotiating Knowledge and Knowledge Transfer in the Field. Lisette Josephides (Queen's University Belfast, UK)Part Two: Interview TechniquesThe Autobiographical Narrative Interview: A Potential Arena of Emotional Remembering, Performance and Reflection. Maruska Svasek and Markieta Domecka (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Eliciting the Tacit: Interviewing to Understand Bodily Experience. Georgiana Gore (Université Blaise Pascal, France), Géraldine Rix-Lieévre (Université Blaise Pascal, France), Olivier Wathelet (Institut Paul Bocuse, France) and Anne Cazemajou (Université Blaise Pascal, France)Difficult Moments in the Ethnographic Interview: Vulnerability, Silence and Rapport. Ann Montgomery (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK)Part Three: Interview Cases Instances of Inspiration: Interviewing Dancers and Writers. Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)'Angola Calling': A Study of Registers of Imagination in the Interview. Madalina Florescu (School of Oriental and African Studies, UK)The Contortions of Forgiveness: Betrayal, Abandonment, and Narrative Entrapment among the Harkis. Vincent Crapanzano (CUNY, USA)Integrating Interviews into Quantitive Domains: Reaching the Parts Controlled Trials Can't Reach. Alex Greene (University of Dundee, UK)Recalling What Was Unspeakable: Hunger in North Korea. Sandra Fahy (L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)Re-presenting Hopis: Indigenous Responses to the Ethnographic Interview. Nick McCaffery (Independent Scholar, UK)Epilogue: Expectations, Auto-Narrative and Beyond. Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK)ReferencesIndex

In its assessment of the current ""state of play"" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of ""the field"" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by curre