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In this eloquently written volume Michael Agar expands the premise set forth in his very popular work The Professional Stranger. Speaking of Ethnography challenges the assumption that conventional scientific procedures are appropriate for the study of human affairs. Agar's work is informed by a hermeneutic and phenomenological tradition, in which he questions the researcher's own taken-for-granted procedures.
The Language in Use: Two Examples
The Language in Use: Two Examples
The ethnographic language outlined here characterizes only a part of what an ethnographer does. That part—perhaps the most critical when it comes to the public display of knowledge—occurs when the ethnographer detaches and analyzes, when he or she works to reason from some data to some pattern. But ...