The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography - Softcover

Agar, Michael H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012043850X ISBN 13: 9780120438501

Publisher: Academic Pr, 1980

Synopsis

This edition of an introductory text opens with a 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael H. Agar received his Ph.D. in anthropology at the Language-Behavior Research Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include Speaking of Ethnography, Independents Declared, and Language Shock. Agar has been doing ethnography for many years with a variety of people including heroin addicts, villagers in South India, independent truckers, and Austrian politicians.

Review:

Review of the First Edition:
"Agar's writing is lively and informal. He conveys the excitement of his subject while candidly sketching some of the ambiguities and problems that will challenge future ethnographers,"
--Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Pr
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 012043850X
• ISBN 13: 9780120438501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227