Qualitative research

[galey modan]

Thanks everyone for these great suggestions. I'll wait to see if any more
come in and then compile a list.

best,

Galey

2011/3/9 Val Pagliai <v.pagliai at yahoo.com>

> Hi,
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> There is always "Thick Description" by Geertz.
> When I was an undergraduate I read the Introduction to Paul Feyerabend' s
> "Against the Method" and loved it. He does a very effective critique of the
> scientific method.
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> Best,
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> Valentina Pagliai
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> Department of Anthropology
> American University
> Washington, DC 20016
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>  Phone# (908) 668-4840  (h)
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> There Is No Place Like Everywhere
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> ________________________________
> From: Eric Henry <Eric_Henry at CARLETON.CA>
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Sent: Wed, March 9, 2011 8:49:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [LINGANTH] Qualitative research
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> To flip things around, instead of trying to justify ethnography as a
> "scientific" (and thus valid) process, I like to challenge my students to
> think
> of science as a social process. I've found Jonathan Marks' works very
> helpful in
> this regard, as he is a biological anthropologist with a deep interest in
> culture. Several of the chapters in his recent book "Why I am Not a
> Scientist"
> would be good candidates. Also, in a class on ritual last week I asked my
> students to read Hugh Gusterson's Nuclear Rites, which offers a ritual
> analysis
> of nuclear weapons testing. Some of them were shocked to think that
> something so
> exotic as ritual plays a role in theoretical physics.
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> Regards,
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> Eric Henry
> SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
> Carleton University
> Ottawa, ON.
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