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Master Program Admission Courses Readings



Reading assignments for
SVF-3102 The crossing view-the qualitative research process

General information on readings
a) Those titles which has an * can be bought at the bookshop in Hovedgården
b) Titles with an @ can be found on the internet, through bibsys.
c) Titles with no marks are compendiums to be sold in the bookshop


1. Analytical perspectives.

Bronislaw Malinowski: "Introduction. The Subject, Method and scope of this inquiry", in Argonauts of the Western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1922. 26 pages

Erving Goffman: "Introduction", in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Penguins Books: London. 1959. 15 pages

Bruce M. Knauft: "Stories, Histories, and Theories. Agendas in Cultural Anthropology and Critically Human Sensibilities " (Chap. 1 and 2) in Genealogies of Cultural Anthropology. Routledge: London 1999. 53 pages

Cliffort Geertz: "Thick description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture", in Interpretations of Cultures. Basic Books: New York. 1973. 30 pages

Cliffort Geertz: "Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example", in Interpretations of Cultures. Basic Books: New York. 1973. 28 pages

Sherry Ortner: "Theory in anthropology since the Sixties", in Comparative Study in Society and History, no 26, 1: 126-166. 1984. 40 pages

Ulf Hannerz: "The Nature of Culture today", in Cultural Complexity. Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning. Columbia University Press: New York. (1992). 37 pages

@  Ulf Hannerz: The world of creolisation. Africa. 57:546-559 14 pages.

Sally F. Moore: "The Ethnography of the Present and the Analysis of Process", in Assessing Cultural Anthropology, (ed) Robert Borofsky. McGraw-Hill: New York. 1994. 12 pages

Fredrik Barth: "Models of social organization and Analytical dimensions in the comparison of social organizations", in Process and Form in Social Life. Selected Essays of Fredrik Barth. Volume I." Routledge & Kegan: London. 1981. 34 pages

Harald Eidheim: "When Ethnic Identity becomes a Social Stigma", in F. Barth (ed):Ethnic groups and Boundaries. Universitetsforlaget:Oslo. 1969. 18 pages

 * Sigurd Berentzen: Chapter 1, 2 and 3 in Children Constructing Their Social World. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen: Bergen 1984. 25 pages

Lisbet Holtedahl: "Magic and Love on the Road to Higher Education in Cameroon 2, in E. Rosander ed): Transforming Female Identities. Women’s Organizational Forms in West Africa. Nordiska Afrikainstiutet:Uppsala, 1997. 16 pages.

* Reidar Grønhaug: "Scale and social organization: Fields of Social Organization in Heart Northwest Afghanistan", in F. Barth (ed): Scale and Social Organization. Universitetsforlaget:Oslo. 1978. (reprint: Pensumsforlaget). 44 pages 

Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport: "The Trouble with Community", in The Trouble with Community. Anthropological Reflections on movement, Identity and Collectivity. In Pluto Press: London. 2002. 23 pages

Marianne Gullestad: "Why Study Autobiographies"?, in "Everyday Life Philosophers. Universitetsforlaget: Oslo. 1996. 30 pages
Total 445 pages


The cross cultural research process

2) Methodology

* David McCurdy, James Spradley, Diana Shandy: The Cultural Expereince. Ethnography in Complex Society. Second Edition. Waveland Press. Illinois. 100 pages  

Lisbet Holtedahl: "Communication problems in social research", in Peter Crawford (Ed.): The Nordic Eye. Proceedings from NAFA 1. Intervention Press: Højbjerg. 1993. 15 pages

Lisbet Holtedahl, Siri Gerrard et.al: "Peripheral regions- pioneering knowledge", in Pouvoir et Savoir. Karthala: Paris, 1999. 7 pages
 
Georges Marcus: “Sticking with Ethnography through Thik and Thin” in Ethnography through Thick & Thin. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 1998. 23 pages

Harry F. Wolcott: Ethnography in the Good Old Days. In: Ethnography a way of seeing” Altamira Press: London. 1999. 10 pages
 
Lila Abu-Lughod: "Writing against Culture in Fox", (ed): Recapturating Anthropology. School of American Research Press: Santa Fe. 1991. 23 pages

Inger Altern og Lisbet Holtedahl: "Knowledge about us and the other", in Ngaoundéré-Anthropos Revue de Sciences Sociales. Vol V. (2000). 30 pages

Ingrid Rudie: "Making sense of new experience", in Hastrup and Hervik (eds.): Social experience and anthropological knowledge, Routledge: London. 1994.
18 pages

Jay Ruby: “Speaking for, Speaking about, Speaking with, or Speaking Alongside” in Picturing Culture. Exploration of Film & Anthropology. University of Chicago Press: London (2000) 24 pages

Bjørn Arntsen and Lisbet Holtedahl: "Visualizing Situatedness – The Role of the Audience/Reader in Knowledge Production." Paper presented at Challenging Situatedness – Gender, Culture and Knowledge. Tromsø. 2002. Revised version 18 pages

Adrian Holliday: “Writing about Relations”, (Chap 7) in Doing and Writing Qualitative Research. Sage Publications/London 2002. 30 pages
 

Total 298 pages


Oppdatert av Petia Mankova den 15.08.2005 13:15


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