Local Environmental Change and Society in Africa by M.A. Salih

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single ebook of its kind--a concise, complete, and useful advisor for college kids, academics, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic tips on how to learn on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written through top ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the foremost approach to player remark, the ebook offers priceless recommendation, assistance, guidance, and rules to help researchers via each degree of a venture, from making a choice on an internet fieldsite to writing and publishing the implications.

Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion) (German Edition)

Melanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis.

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

The various projects and workouts that form our day-by-day life can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play an incredibly strong position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts mild on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a consultant to the invisible global of the standard and an guide for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This e-book deals scholars a entire, theoretical, and sensible advisor to conversation concept. Croucher defines a number of the views on conversation theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and important approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with subject matters together with interpersonal verbal exchange, organizational conversation, intercultural verbal exchange, persuasion, serious and rhetorical thought and different key suggestions.