Contours of Culture: Complex Ethnography and the Ethnography of Complexity

by Paul Anthony Atkinson

Book Overview

In Contours of Culture the authors discuss the uses of various ethnographic methods in the study of culture, drawing on their field research with an opera company, Welsh artists, and classes on the popular Brazilian martial art capoeira. In their practical research and in the research of other scolars, they encounter complex problems and themes that often require new ways of organizing and conceiving cultural material, and even new ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075910705X
• ISBN13: 9780759107052
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"