The ethnographic methods that anthropologists first developed to study other cultures — fieldwork, participant observation, dialogue — are now being adapted for a broad array of applications, such as ...

Joanne Stuttgen is a folklorist and author of Cafe Wisconsin and Cafe Indiana, two ethnographic books about the food, people, culture, social rituals, and history of each state’s small town cafes. In ...

Domghouse, in Bhojpuri, is a slang name for the economic bargaining that funeral workers undertake at the ghat which involves a relentless asking for more than what the funeral travellers may ...