TY - BOOK AU - Agar,M.H TI - The professional stranger: an informal introduction to ethnography SN - 012043850X AV - DUCE GN346.A42 PY - 1980/// CY - New York PB - Academic Press KW - Ethnology KW - Fieldwork KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar shows how the fundamentals endure even as they adapt to a world unimagined when the research perspective developed more than 100 years ago. Contemporary discussions of ethnography are loaded with choices, primarily "either-or" option. Just as the first edition crossed the qualitative-quantitative divide, the new edition integrates classical scientific notions with new concepts such as narrative and interpretation ER -