Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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The Para-Ethnographic Trajectories Of Professional Ethnography

The Para-Ethnographic Trajectories Of Professional Ethnography

Professional anthropologists frequently occupy unique roles, simultaneously inside and outside the organizations we work for or work with. Most of us are already adept at negotiating these roles, but don’t necessarily highlight this skill as something of great value, either to professional...

Tangible Tools in Para-Ethnographic Fieldwork

Tangible Tools in Para-Ethnographic Fieldwork

This paper sets out to explore how tangible tools can invite industrial managers to have a say in how ethnographic fieldwork can be conducted to explore the use of products in real-life contexts. We draw upon video materials and field notes from a series of customer visits in four European...