Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

TL;DR: The authors presented and analyzed two cases of ethnographic, topic-driven, fieldwork among upper caste, middle-class women in urban India, which is a field dominated by hierarchical social relations.

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between migrant mothers and welfare workers in domestic space to argue the home is a site where the boundary between formal, social and affective aspects of citizenship is remade.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the phenomenon of popularity and its implications for gender construction, social inclusion, and gender equality among girls in two ethnically diverse contexts in Norway and conclude that the crucial dimensions of popularity overlap with "economies of dignity" and vary according to whether the ethnic Norwegians are in a minority or majority position.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the factors affecting the innovativeness of service encounters, either as drivers or barriers, and found that encounter-based innovation requires mutual empathy between employees and customers, employees investing stubbornness and time can be a driver for innovation, and several layers of management can be barriers.