Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America to learn how various methods work in the real world, and how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory. Exercises and assignments encourage students to practice these methods in a familiar context, and a sustained focus on visual methodologies offers coverage not found in other books. The result is a text that discusses both practical and theoretical issues in contemporary ethnography while equipping students with a set of transferable skills.
Lynda Mannik, PhD. is the editor of Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival (2016) and author of Photography, Memory, and Refugee Identity: The Voyage of the SS Walnut, 1948 (2013). She currently teaches anthropology at York University in Toronto.
Karen McGarry is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University. She is a co-author of Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach (2013) and co-editor with Lynda Mannik of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation (2015).