Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this
discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the …

Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to
believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of …

A Guide to Imagework is a pioneering guide to a new trend in ethnographic research: the
use of imaginative, experiential methods such as dreamwork, artwork, Gestalt theory and …

We could continue drawing out further parallels, alluding, for example, to the problematic
nature of fieldwork, dubious research methods, the agent's own coding of information and …

In health and social care research, as in the social science arena, debate surrounding the
methodological divide constructed between researchers concerned with statistical modelling …

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of
Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however …

The aim of this chapter is to reflect analytically on the fieldwork encounter, particularly those
frequently cited 'critical experiences' during fieldwork (or so they sometimes appear with …

In this chapter, I outline theory, method, and findings of the ethnographic approach to
dreams, dreaming, and their consequences in various realms of social and cultural life …

This article explores the way in which community belonging may be imagined and enacted.
It begins with an introduction to a small Inner Hebridean island community and a discussion …

Existing alongside the traditional forms of qualitative social science research, there is a set
of potential research methods that derive from experiential groupwork and the humanistic …