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ETHNOGRAPHY

Agar, M. and J. R. Hobbs (1982). Interpreting discourse: Coherence and the analysis of ethnographic interviews. Discourse Processes 5: 1-32.

Agar, M. H. (1985). Speaking of Ethnography. Sage University Paper Series on Qualitative Research Methods, Volume 2. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Anderson, Elijah. Streetwise.

Anderson, G. L. (1989). Critical Ethnography in Education: Origins, Current Status and New Directions. Review of Educational Research, 59(3), 249-70.

Center for Ethnographic Research
University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Center for Urban Ethnography
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.

Chabran, R. (1997). Changing Paradigms in Chicano Studies: Ethnography, Oppositional Ethnography, and Ethnobiography. Occasional Paper No. 31, Whittier College.

deMarrias and LeCompte. (19??). The Way Schools Work. Longman.
(It does a good job with ethnicity, gender, social class, and youth culture)

Ellis, C. and Bochner, A. P. (eds.) (1996). Composing ethnography: Alternative forms of qualitative writing, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (http://www.altamirapress.com).

Ethnography
A comprehensive site from the Colorado State University Writing Center

EthnoQuest
Berdan, F. F., Stark, E. A., and van Loon, C. (2002). Prentice Hall.
EthnoQuest is a simulation CD-ROM reflecting a series of ethnographic encounters in a computer-based learning environment. In this role-play program you assume the identity of an ethnographer who undertakes anthropological fieldwork in a fictitious village. Developed by Frances F. Berdan, Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Latin American Studies Program, CSU-San Bernardino.

Fetterman, David. (1991). Using Qualitative Methods in Institutional Research. Sage. Part of the series on "New Directions for Institutional Research." Fetterman, who is at Stanford, has also written extensively on ethnography.

Goetz, J. P. and LeCompte, M. D. (1984). Ethnography and Qualitative Design in Educational Research. Orlando, FL.

Goffman, Erving. (1989). On Fieldwork. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 18(2): 123-132.

Goffman, Erving. Behavior in Public Places.

Gubrium, J. F., (1988). Analyzing Field Reality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Handbook of Ethnography
Department of Sociology Lancaster University

Inman Beall, B. What is Ethnography? From her course syllabus.

Jones, A. (1991). At School I've Got a Chance, PalmerstonNorth, New Zealand: Dunmore Press.

LeCompte, M. D., and Preissle, J., with Tesch, R. (1993). Ethnography and Qualitative Design in Educational Research. (2nd ed.) Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Leidner, R. (1993). Fast food, fast talk: Service work and the routinization of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lofland, J. and Lofland, L. Analyzing Social Settings.

Miami Ethno-History Project
Field School in Anthropology Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma co-operate in the Miami Ethno-History Project. The project seeks to document, record, and archive information about the traditional knowledge, oral history, and culture of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

Masemann, V. L. (1982). Critical Ethnography in the Study of Comparative Education. Comparative Education Review, 26(1), 1-15.

Nicholls, J. and Hazzard, S. P. (1993). Education as Adventure: Lessons from the Second Grade. New York: Teachers College Press.

Resources in Ethnographic Studies
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center

Rist, R. C. (1982). On the Application of Ethnographic Inquiry to Education: Procedures and Possibilities. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 19(6), 429-450.

Shockley, B., Michalove, B. and Allen, J. (1995). Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

(An) Urban Ethnography of Latino Street.
By Dr. Francine Hallcom. Gangs in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

Van Maanen, J. (1988). Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Walcott, Harry . The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography.