Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan & Joseph Henrich To cite this article: Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan & Joseph Henrich (2016) Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 6:1, 34-5...

The central concern of this article is the relationship between ethnography and social theory. With the help of ‘consequent processualism’, a social ontology that centers on the co-constitution of people, cultural forms, social relations, and the built environment, this essay makes an argument for what should be at the core of social theorizing: the principles underpinning the dynamics of proce...

This article considers the ethical guidelines concerning autonomy, negotiated consent and transparency in relation to an ethnography of psychiatry. It suggests that the complexities and unequal power distribution of the psychiatric consultation make these guidelines difficult to apply. Rather an attempt is made to develop an ethics of patient acknowledgement even where this presents ethical mis...

Studying atrocities poses many challenges for ethnographers, not least of which is how to represent violent experiences, often exceed articulation. The perpetrated during the military dictatorship in Argentina are no exception. Yet, my fieldwork Buenos Aires, I found that violence forcefully surfaced ethnographic encounters, as a result having accidentally absorbed interlocutors’ psychoanalytic...

This open access book describes and elaborates methods for research on through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method design because it constantly orients itself – such as all projects toward social realities.

This paper addresses the problem of ‘production-quality’ CSCW software development where software is developed from an agreed statement of the system requirements. In particular, we are concerned with ways in which requirements specifications for CSCW systems can be developed and with the integration of ethnography into traditional specification methods. Existing approaches to requirements engi...

Development of a culture of evidence based medicine depends on a body of research that draws from both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Recent BMJ articles have usefully questioned a stark polarity between qualitative and quantitative research and helped to demystify qualitative approaches. 3 4 There has been little mention of ethnography, however, and little argument for its use in hea...

This paper attempts to contribute to the positivist-interpretivist and rigor-relevance debates in IS research. We accomplish this by reflecting on the implications of symbolic interactionist ethnography for enriching interpretive research, and by highlighting how the adaptation of the “constant comparison” technique from grounded theory may help move the ethnography study towards theoretical in...

In this article, the author outlines the need for a critical research method in the field of health promotion to explore the determinants of health. These determinants, including healthy child development, employment and working conditions, and education, for example, underlie many of the health issues that individuals experience. They are, in turn, influenced by nebulous factors such as patter...