Product Description: Including coverage of the selection of cases, observation and interviewing, recording data, and takes into account ethical issues, Doing Ethnographic and Observational Research introduces the reader to the practice of producing data through ethnographic fieldwork and observational research...read more

Product Description: In this collection of linked stories, Michael Angrosino imaginatively re-creates the Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York where he grew up in the 1950s. This working-class ethnic enclave was in a state of flux; seemingly timeless verities were being challenged as a younger generation prepared for the great dispersion to the middle-class suburbs...read more

Product Description: Blessed With Enough Foolishness: Pastoral Care in a Modern Hospital is the memoir of a professional cultural anthropologist in the midst of a career shift into hospital chaplaincy. The book provides a holistic description of the programs, policies, and personnel of a public, big city hospital as seen through the activities of its corps of chaplains...read more