Shane, the Lone Ethnographer: A Beginner's Guide to Ethnography

Sally Campbell Galman

Jan 2007 · Rowman Altamira

About this ebook

Shane, The Lone Ethnographer is an accessible and entertaining introduction to ethnography. Campbell Galman walks the reader through the process of doing ethnographic research, via her comic character Shane, the Lone Ethnographer, on the campus of an unnamed university. For the novice researcher about to embark on fieldwork in qualitative research methods, this is an excellent--and the only comic-book--introduction. Her text will delight and inform students who are learning ethnographic methods in anthropology, education, and other social science courses.

About the author

Sally Campbell Galman received her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder and she is currently Professor of Child and Family Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Co-Editor in Chief of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. As an anthropologist of childhood and award-winning visual artist, her arts-based ethnographic research focuses on the study of childhood, gender and schooling, especially among young transgender or gender nonconforming children. Her ethnographic research has been supported by the Spencer Foundation. A graduate of Grinnell College, Dr. Galman was born in Japan and attended Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Keep up with her adventures at www.SallyCampbellGalman.com