Gives useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this form of research.  Meer

With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singing—describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.  Meer

With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singing—describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.  Meer

States that karaoke creates its own culture, while reflecting much about the wider culture and the place of popular music as a media form. This book presents an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional rollercoaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer.  Meer

As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect, Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer.  Meer

This is a study of a gay community, a narrative of personal development and change and an exploration of the use of friendship in conducting research.  Meer

This volume brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research.  Meer

This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz.  Meer

This text provides a foundational understanding of the writing process associated with innovative forms of ethnographic writing. It offers advice, examples, and exercises for every step in the ethnographic writng process, including field observations, notes, narrative development, and editing.  Meer

Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, communication researcher NickTrujillo learns how family members use stories to define the family's sense of itself and create collective views on intergenerational relations, social history, gender, class, and ethnicity in this experimental ethnography.  Meer

Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. This work features essays that poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field.  Meer

Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. This work features essays that poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field.  Meer

Explores the interplay between literary and ethnographic writing.  Meer

By weaving together a life-histories approach to ethnography and with a concept of culture, the author presents an intimate and complex picture of Opportunity House, a highly functional community of mentally-retarded adults.  Meer