Syllabus

Books

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph Williams (2008) The Craft of Research. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Moses, Jonathon W. and Torbjørn L. Knutsen  (2007) Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Stuart, Alex (1998) The Ethnographer's Method. London: Sage.

Compendium

The following articles is available in two compendiums that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Your Student ID Card.

• Bertaux, Daniel (1981) “From the Life-History Approach to the Transformation of Sociological Practice”, in Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. London: Sage, pp. 29-45.
• Brockinton, Dan and Sullivan, Sian “Qualitative Research” in Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (2003) Development Fieldwork. London: Sage.
• Bruner, Jeremy  1990 “Acts of Meaning”, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-32
• Bryman, Alan (2008). “Research Designs”+ “Sampling” + Asking Questions” + “Quantitative Data Analysis,” in Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 29-64 + 164-190 + 230-252 + 313-338. (Chapters 2, 7, 10, 14).
• Field, Andy (2005) “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Statistics (Well, Sort of),” in Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. London: Sage, pp.  1-36.
• Fludernik, Monika (2009) An Introduction to Narratology. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-20
• Foss, Sonja K. (1996), “Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice”, Long Grove: Waveland Press, pp. 3-33, 63-7, 121-32, 165-74, 225-37, 291-299, 357-67, 399-408, 455-63 and 483-88.
• Geertz, Clifford (1973) “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”and “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, ” in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-32 + 412-453.
• Lothe, Jacob. 2005. Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-48.
• Lotman, Yuri (1990) “Semiotic Space” + “The Notion of Boundary,” in Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. New York: I.B.Tauris & Co., pp. 123-142.
• Overton, John and van Diermen, Peter  “Using Quantitative Techniques” in Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (2003) Development Fieldwork. London: Sage.
• Winther, Tanja (2008) “Introduction,” in The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-21

Online articles

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The articles will also be available as pdf. files in Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

• Aberbach, Joel D. and Bert A. Rockman (2002) “Conducting and Coding Elite Interviews,” in PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), pp. 673-676.
• Aguilar-Støen, M.  et al. (2009) "Home Gardens Sustain Crop Diversity and Improve Farm Resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico",  in Human Ecology, Vol. 37, No. 1 (February 2009) , pp. 55-77
• Berry, Jeffrey (2002) “Validity and Reliability Issues in Elite Research,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), pp. 679-682.
• Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2009), "The Climate of History: Four Theses”, Critical Inquiry 35, The University of Chicago.
• Dexter, Lewis Anthony (2006) “New introduction” + “Chapter 1, Introduction,” in Elites and Specialized Interviewing. Colchester: ECPR Press/Northwestern University, pp. 1-31.
• Kezar, Adrianna (2003) “Transformational Elite Interviews: Principles and Problems,” Qualitative Inquiry, 9, pp. 395-415.
• Löfgren, Orvar (1990) “The Danger of Knowing What You Are Looking For,” in Ethnologia Scandinavica, 20, pp. 3-15.
• Marcus, George E. (1995) “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, pp. 95-117.
• Moe, Jannicke et al. (2002) “Density-Dependent Compensation in Blowfly Populations Give Indirectly Positive Effects of a Toxicant,” in Ecology, 83(6), pp. 1597-1603.
• Nesheim, Ingrid et al. (2006) ”What Happens to Traditional Knowledge and Use of Natural Resources When People Migrate?” in Human Ecology, 34(1), pp. 99-131.
• Ortner, Sherry (1973) “On Key Symbols,”in American Anthropologist, 75(5), pp. 1338-1346.
• Peres, C.A. et. al.(2003): “Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation” in Science, 302(5653), pp. 2112-2114.
• Rorty, Richard (1991) “Texts and Lumps,”in New Literary History, 39(1), pp. 53-68.
• Richard, David O. (1996) “Elite Interviewing: Approaches and Pitfalls,” Politics, 16(3), pp. 199-204.
• Syse, Karen (2001) “Ethics in the Woods,” in Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, 4(3), pp. 226-234.
• Syse, Karen (2013) “Otters as Symbols in the British Environmental Discourse” in Landscape Research, 38:4, 540-552
• Schmook, Birgit and Radel, Claudia (2008) “International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition Hum Ecol  36:891–908
• Smith, Derek A. (2003) Participatory Mapping of Community Lands and Hunting Yields among the Bugle of Western Panama Human Organization; Winter 2003; 62, 4; ProQuest Psychology Journalspg. 332
• United Nations Economic Commission For Europe (2009) “Making Data Meaningful. Part 2: A guide to presenting statistics”, ECE/CES/STAT/NONE/2009/3, pp. 7-29
• Wilhite, H., H. Nakagami, T. Masuda, Y. Yamaga and H. Haneda. (1996) “A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Household Energy Use Behaviour in Japan and Norway” in Energy Policy, 24(9), pp. 795-803.