Contours of Culture: Complex Ethnography and the Ethnography of Complexity
- ISBN-10
- 0759107068
- ISBN-13
- 9780759107069
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rowman Altamira
- Authors
- Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, William Housley
Description
In Contours of Culture the authors address practical and theoretical problems of using ethnographic methods in the study of culture, drawing on their field research with an opera company, Welsh artists, and classes on a popular Brazilian martial art.
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- 2005-03-01
- 270 pages
- Ebook
- Hong Kong University Press
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