The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society

by David W. McCurdy, James P. Spradley, Dianna Shandy

Book Overview

The Cultural Experience has helped generations of undergraduates discover the excitement of ethnographic research through participation in relatively familiar cultures in North American society.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577663640
• ISBN13: 9781577663645
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Waveland Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Starting Place!

I have used the earlier edition of this textbook twice in a college seminar for first-year students on ethnographic interviewing. The students liked the book because it is very *grounded*: They were easily able to get the point, and could find ways to apply those points in their own research. I have seen the new edition, and I believe it is a nice improvement over the original-- it felt like lots of teaching-experience went into the revisions. The student papers in the new edition seem a little more current, and selected from a larger number of successful papers. I also remember being pleased with the inclusion of more materials on the ethical considerations of ethnographic research. If you want to teach hands-on ethnographic method, this is an *excellent* place to start!