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Political ethnography : what immersion contributes to the study of power / edited by Edward Schatz ; foreword by Myron J. Aronoff

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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xiv, 361 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Schatz, Edward

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Contents
Introduction: ethnographic immersion and the study of politics / Edward Schatz -- Two traditions of political ethnography -- Ethnography of politics: foundations, applications, prospects / Jan Kubik -- How to tell an axe murderer: an essay on ethnography, truth, and lies / Jessica Allina-Pisano -- Ethnography as interpretive enterprise / Lisa Wedeen -- First-person research -- When nationalists are not separatists: discarding and recovering academic theories while doing fieldwork in the Basque region of Spain / Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh -- Ethnographic research in the shadow of civil war / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- The political in political ethnography: dispatches from the kill floor / Timothy Pachirat -- Ethnography's varied contributions -- Scholars as citizens: studying public opinion through ethnography / Katherine Cramer Walsh -- Ethnography and causality: sorcery and popular culture in the Congo / Michael G. Schatzberg -- The ethnographic sensibility: overlooked authoritarian dynamics and islamic ambivalences in west Africa / Cédric Jourde -- Participant observation, politics, and power relations: Nicaraguan mothers and U.S casino waitresses / Lorraine Bayard de Volo -- Placing ethnography in the discipline -- Ethnography and the study of Latin American politics: an agenda for research / Enrique Desmond Arias -- When you can see the sky through your roof: policy analysis from the bottom up / Corey Shdaimah, Roland Stahl, and Sanford F. Schram -- Dear author, dear reader: the third hermeneutic in writing and reviewing ethnography / Dvora Yanow -- Conclusion: What kind(s) of ethnography does political science need? / Edward Schatz.
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ISBN
9780226736761 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226736768 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226736778 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226736776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-350) and index.
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