Exploring everyday life
Subtitle: strategies for ethnography and cultural analysis
By: Billy Ehn, Orvar Löfgren, and Richard Wilk
Contributors: Löfgren, Orvar; Wilk, Richard R.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780759124059; 9780759124066; 9780759124073
Subjects: Ethnology; Methodology
Description: The numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisible--and yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring Everyday Life casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a guide to the invisible world of the everyday and an instruction manual for first-time explorers. Ehn, Lofgren, and Wilk demonstrate how to use a broad array of ethnographic tools to discover, map, and document new and unexplored territories and guide readers through the process of cultural analysis. Their concrete examples shed light on how a study or paper assignment can evolve and point to how cultural analysis of everyday life can be practically applied in business, government, and other arenas outside of academia.--Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.