A Mutual Interest? Ethnography in Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Anthropology and cultural studies share a concern with ethnographic method. Cultural studies increasingly uses ethnography in its analyses of popular culture as it seeks to balance earlier preoccupations with text. Where cultural studies diverges from anthropology is in its encompassment within an o...

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Main Author: McEachern, Charmaine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1998
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 1998, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-264
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