{"product_id":"the-ethnographic-imagination-9780745601748","title":"The Ethnographic Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA A highly original and thought--provoking book concerning the nature of ethnography and its importance in social enquiry.   A Written by the author of Learning to Labour, this new book is informed by Willisa  own ethnographic research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Willis is at his best in this book when he turns to the data from his 30 years of ethnographic experience. He makes frequest reference to his observations in both \u003ci\u003eLearning to Labor\u003c\/i\u003e and the 1990, \u003ci\u003eCommon Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, so that readers not yet acquainted with these works will not be at a disadvantage. Indeed, his observations are often so insightful that even those who have read one or both books might be tempted to take them up again.\" \u003ci\u003eMethodology and Research Techniques\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Willis' book is an intriguing attempt to pose questions about doing ethnography in our post-industrial 'leisure societies' ... it presents some genuinely interesting insights and ethnographic vignettes.\" \u003ci\u003eDiscourse \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Art in the Everyday\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Life as Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Social.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Ethnography in Post Modernity\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Quasi-Modo Commodity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Penetrations in the Post Modern World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Social Reproduction as Social History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Ethnographic Imagination and 'Whole Ways of Life'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767971512663,"sku":"9780745601748","price":19.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745601748.jpg?v=1758715738","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ethnographic-imagination-9780745601748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}