Product Description: Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use of participant observation...read more

Product Description: Participant Observation is a central and defining method of research in cultural anthropology, as well as a common feature of qualitative research in a number of other disciplines—sociology, education, health sciences. The authors have written the basic guide to the collection of systematic data in naturalistic settings—communities in many different cultures—to achieve an understanding of the most fundamental processes and patterns of social life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The attainment of food self-sufficiency has been a major goal of developing countries over the past 25 years. Yet, in the 1980s, most of these countries have increased, often dramatically, their dependence on food imports. Within this context, the authors assess the implications for producer welfare of the changes in grain production and consumption in developing countries from 1960 to 1985 - changes in grains produced, who produces them, who buys them and to what end...read more

Product Description: Book by Dewalt, Billie R.

Product Description: Book by Dewalt, Billie R.