Links to ethnography pages
- The American Folklife Center provides a collection of resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folklife. On this page you can find some general resources on these subjects, scholarly programs, archives and museums, online presentations of archival collections, and journals and newsletters.
- The American Anthropological Association also provides a page (some links) on ethnography.
- Dr. David Fetterman is a director of evaluation at Stanford School of Medicine. Click here to read an excerpt of David Fetterman's book 'Etnhography: step by step'.
- Resources on ethnology, ethnography, and anthropology, provided by The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
- The Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life (CEEL) (provided by the Universiy of Michigan).
CEEL's research and training focus takes off from the well documented changes in family and work life among Middle Class Americans. Dramatic increases in married women's labor force participation, the rising number of dual career and income families, steep increases in the percentage of children under 5 years old in day care... these are just some of the transformations in American life that survey research has documented. The multi-disciplinary group of researchers of CEEL are united by their sense that these changes are more than behavioral. They believe that these changes point to shifts in the very meaning of our cultural categories of family and work. CEEL research is devoted to exploring these cultural shifts and they welcome you to an exploration of our virtual center on the web. - Some excellent examples of ethnographic research in anthropology can be found at The Ethnographics Gallery at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Also try the CSAC Research Projects section on this page, which contains a bevy of electronically-published ethnographic studies.
- Ideas Bazaar was an organization that specialised in ethnographic research. Their aim was to help organisations and businesses better understand their audiences and environment. The insight, understanding and ideas Ideas Bazaar generates, enabled their clients to think, innovate, design and communicate more successfully.
Ideas Bazaar believed that ethnography has the unique potential to deliver the understanding, insight, analytical rigour and creative thinking today's complex environment requires. Ideas Bazaar is no longer, but their site still provides useful resourses on ethnography.
Links to online journals and articles
- Clifford Geertz is famous for coining the term "thick description" in discussing the methodology of the ethnographer. Click here to read an article (by Gary A. Olsen) in which Geertz discusses his ideas on ethnography and social construction.
- ‘Qualitative and Discourse Analysis' is an article by Jonathan Potter that, next to discourse analysis, also discusses ethnography and participant observation.
- Ideas Bazaar composed a list of articles on ethnography and related subjects. The list is composed by Ideas Bazaar, a former research consultancy.
- Harvard Business School has reprinted an extract from 'Margaret Mead Meets Consumer Fieldwork', Harvard Management Update, September, 2001.
- Following this link you will arrive on a page that contains more online articles about ‘ethnography’.
- Finally, Ethnography and The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography are two examples of journals about ethnography and ethnographic research.