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The Professional Stranger

Hardcover • 1996 • English

The Professional Stranger

By Michael H. Agar

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About the book

This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive chapter that brings ethnography up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar shows how the fundamentals endure even as they adapt to a world unimagined when the research perspective developed more than 100 years ago. Contemporary discussions of ethnography are loaded with choices, primarily "either-or" options. Just as th...Show more

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9780120444700

Publisher

Academic Press Inc

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

The Professional Stranger

Format

Hardcover

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