Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

by Billy Ehn, Orvar Löfgren, Richard Wilk

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. Exploring Everyday Life 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.

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.

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction

162 pages, Paperback

First published July 23, 2015

About the author

Billy Ehn är professor i Etnologi.

Reviews

[Iván Ramírez Osorio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lindo libro, balance interesante entre un texto sobre metodologías y un texto que presenta algunas imágenes sobre lo que es estudiar la vida cotidiana a partir del análisis cultural y la etnografía. Lectura, en muchas formas, reveladora.

[Chico Hindarto · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a down to earth book about doing ethnography, which based on the daily life phenomena. The authors were so creative in featuring the fieldworks as examples.