Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

<span><span>The numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisible—and yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Exploring Everyday Life </span><span>casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a guide to the invisible world of the everyday and an instruction manual for first-time explorers.</span></span><br /><br /><span><span>Ehn, Lofgren, and Wilk demonstrate how to use a broad array of ethnographic tools to discover, map, and document new and unexplored territories and guide readers through the process of cultural analysis. Their concrete examples shed light on how a study or paper assignment can evolve and point to how cultural analysis of everyday life can be practically applied in business, government, and other arenas outside of academia.</span></span>