Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences

Madhulika Sahoo is an anthropologist by training and is currently working as Assistant Professor (OPSC) at the Department of Anthropology, Kalahandi University, Odisha, India. She is also Director, Student Welfare and Placement, and syndicate member of Kalahandi University, Government of Odisha. Dr Sahoo has more than eight years of experience working in the development sector focusing on forced migrants and tribal development in India and the United Kingdom. She is also a managing editor of Avoidable Deaths Network. S. Jeyavelu is a management scholar, academician, process facilitator, consultant, and coach. He is currently working as Professor and Director, GITAM School of Business, GITAM, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He was the founding Dean, VIT-AP School of Business, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India, where he started India’s first BBA programme with Liberal Arts foundation (2018–2021). Anjali Kurane is Senior Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Professor Kurane has over 30 years of teaching experience and 16 years of administrative experience in the capacity of Former Dean, Faculty of Humanities; Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences; Coordinator for Social Sciences and Humanities; and member of the Statutory Authorities of a University Board of Studies, Academic Council, Senate. She is also a member of the statutory authorities of university board of studies, academic council, and senate. She has received two awards and recognitions at international levels as Staff Fellow to Oxford Brookes University, the UK, and Ghent University, Belgium.

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List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

MADHULIKA SAHOO, S. JEYAVELU AND ANJALI KURANE

PART I

An Insight into Ethnography

1 Ethnography: A Progressive Methodological Approach

MADHULIKA SAHOO AND ANJALI KURANE

2 Emic and Etic Approaches in Conventional and Contemporary Social Science Research

NAVANEETA RATH

3 Ethnographic Case Study Research: The Scope and Limits of Empirical Data

SATTWICK DEY BISWAS

4 Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Research: A Methodological Practice in the Field

SUMAHAN BANDYOPADHYAY

5 Ethnographic Techniques in Social Sciences Research

AMRITA SAHU AND MADHULIKA SAHOO

6 Ethnographic Research in Social Sciences: Using RQDA (CAQDAS) for Data Analysis

SURJIT KUMAR KAR AND DEBASMITA PANIGRAHI

PART II

Ethnography Then and Now: Use of Ethnography in Allied Disciplines

7 Ethnography in Education: Ethnographic Research Methods in Understanding Classroom Pedagogies

JULIE LUCILLE DEL VALLE

8 Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: An Ethnographic Approach to Teaching and Learning of Language

TANNISTHA DASGUPTA

9 The Cultural Basis of Human Behaviour and Ethnography

BHASWATI PATNAIK

10 Ethnography and Health Research: The Ins and Outs

SHRUTI SINGH SAXENA AND NISHANT SAXENA

11 International Border Studies and Ethnography Research Challenges

RATNA DHAR

12 Ethnography and Artificial Intelligence

S. SUMATHI, S. MANJUBARKAVI AND P. GUNANITHI

13 Exploring Hybrid Organizing through Organizational Ethnography

SUSHANTA KUMAR SARMA

PART III

From Theory to Practice: Sharing Ethnography Fieldwork Experiences

14 The ‘Reflexive Rapport’ in a Participatory Ethnography: Research with Children Living in a Bangladeshi Slum

ROSIE YASMIN

15 Smart City Stories: A Case Study of a City in South India

KANAKA HIMABINDU POTTUMUTHU AND HARIPRIYA NARASIMHAN

16 Digital Ethnography: Opportunity and Challenges in Applying for Tribal Development

SHREE BHAGWAN ROY

17 Recovering Health through Identity: The Sési Irékani–Buen Vivir in México for the P’urhépecha People

MARCO RICARDO TÉLLEZ CABRERA

18 An Exploratory Study of Witchcraft among Munda Tribes of Betakocha in India

PRITA DAS GUPTA, DHEESHANA S. JAYASUNDARA AND EWAN DUARTE

19 Social Construction of Gender and Ethnography: An Ethnographic Case Study on Primary Educational Institutions of Rural Bangladesh

TATA ZAFAR

20 From Prescription to Application: Using Grounded Theory-based Methods to Study Social Enterprises

ANKITA TANDON

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