Reading Ethnography

Reading EthnographyThis book presents a model for analyzing and evaluating ethnographic arguments. It examines the relationship between the claims anthropologists make about human behavior and the data they use to warrant them. Jacobson analyzes the textual organization of ethnographies, focusing on the ways in which problems, interpretations, and data are put together. He examines in detail a limited number of well known ethnographic cases, which are selected to

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The authors show that government is not the enemy

and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City

and the aesthetics and ethics of mysticism are all treated in detail

including art at the Prague court of Rudolf II

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The new chapter on moral distress discusses futile care among other causes of moral distress and offers coping techniques for situations in which a nurse has an ethical issue with a standard of care but is powerless to change that care

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A meticulous and systematic study of these writings forms the core of this book

the veracity of the accounts

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