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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.

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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.

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  • PublisherAcademic Pr
  • Publication date1980
  • ISBN 10 012043850X
  • ISBN 13 9780120438501
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