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Shane, the Lone Ethnographer

A Beginner's Guide to Ethnography

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Shane, the Lone Ethnographer

A Beginner's Guide to Ethnography

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Available on Nov 12 2026
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Description

Shane is at it again! Follow our intrepid heroine as she learns what makes ethnography tick against the backdrop of the Great American West complete with cowboy hats, cattle stampedes, and cacti.

Shane, The Lone Ethnographer is an entertaining, step-by-step introduction to ethnographic research. Join graduate student Shane as she embarks on her first research project and learns the definition of ethnography, how to come up with her research question, and how to design her study. Along the way, Shane is joined by a talking armadillo, ghosts of ethnographers past, and her good friend Sanjay, who take turns teaching her different theoretical frameworks, how to conduct ethical research, and how to write ethnographically.

This is the perfect – and only – comic book introduction for the novice researcher.

New to This Edition:
- New introduction explores the value of qualitative research and what it looks like today
- New coverage of arts-based ethnography, ethnography of childhood, visual ethnography, climate ethnography, and digital ethnography introduces students to the latest trends in qualitative research
- Expanded Chapter 4, “Wanted: Theoretical Framework, Dead or Alive,” offers additional coverage of theory and its applications
- Updated Chapter 5, “IRB: From the People Who Brought You the IRS” pays special attention to vulnerable populations

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Has alternative text descriptions for images

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  • Page list to go to pages from the print source version
  • Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
  • All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Alone on the Range: A Fistful of Reserve Reading
2. Showdown at the Paradigm Corral
3. The Beginner: Where Do I Even Start?
4. Wanted: Theoretical Framework, Dead or Alive
5. IRB: From the People Who Brought You the IRS
6. Ethnographic Data and Methods
7. Taming Datasaurus Rex
8. Writing
Final Thoughts
References and Further Reading

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Nov 12 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 3rd
Pages 160
ISBN 9798216276821
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations Fully illustrated
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Sally Campbell Pirie

Dr. Sally Pirie (she/her/hers) is an anthropologis…

Author

Sally Campbell Pirie

Dr. Sally Pirie (she/her/hers) is an anthropologis…

Author

Sally Campbell Pirie

Dr. Sally Pirie (she/her/hers) is an anthropologis…

Author

Sally Campbell Pirie

Dr. Sally Pirie (she/her/hers) is an anthropologis…

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