Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and by Billy Ehn,Orvar Löfgren,Richard Wilk

By Billy Ehn,Orvar Löfgren,Richard Wilk

The a number of initiatives and exercises that form our day-by-day lifestyles can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play an exceptionally robust position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts gentle on those so-called trivia, serving as either a consultant to the invisible international of the typical and an guide for first-time explorers.

Ehn, Lofgren, and Wilk reveal tips on how to use a wide array of ethnographic instruments to find, map, and record new and unexplored territories and advisor readers in the course of the strategy of cultural research. Their concrete examples make clear how a learn or paper task can evolve and aspect to how cultural research of lifestyle may be essentially utilized in company, executive, and different arenas outdoors of academia.

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