Speaking the language of power
Subtitle: communication, collaboration, and advocacy (translating ethnography into action)
By: edited by David M. Fetterman
Series: Social research and educational studies series -- 11; Social research and educational studies series -- 11.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781315043029
Subjects: Applied anthropology; Ethnology; Research; Anthropologie appliquée; Ethnologie; Recherche
Notes: Originally published 1993 by RoutledgeFalmer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Words as the commodity of discourse : influencing power / David M. Fetterman; title: 2. On keeping an edge : translating ethnographic findings and putting them to use : NYC's homeless policy / Kim Hopper; title: 3. Testifying on the hill : using ethnographic data to shape public policy / G. Alfred Hess, Jr.; title: 4. Ethnographic research on AIDS risk behavior and the making of policy / Margaret R. Weeks and Jean J. Schensul; title: 5. Protocol and policy-making systems in American Indian tribes / Linda Parker and Bertney Langley; title: 6. Communicating evaluation findings as a process : the case for delayed gratification / Jolley Christman and Elaine Simon; title: 7. Massaging soft data, or making the skeptical more supple / Mary Jo McGee Brown; title: 8. Gaining acceptance from participants, clients, and policy-makers for qualitative research / Joseph A. Maxwell; title: 9. An evaluation fable : the animals of United Farms / Ronald E. Mertz; title: 10. A school board's response to an ethnographic evaluation : or, whose evaluation is this anyway? / Mary Lopez de Abascal-Hildebrand; title: 11. A framework for conducting utilization-focused policy research in anthropology / Barbara Rylko-Bauer and John van Willigen; title: 12. Ethnography and policy : translating knowledge into action / David M . Fetterman.