Books written by Karen O'Reilly

  • Running Risks
    Running Risks

    I felt I was gawking at a forbidden goddess , like the hunter Actaeon coming upon the naked goddess Artemis . In the unremitting heat of the Italian afternoon , I watched , and I committed every detail to memory .

  • Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama
    Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

    Williams, A., & Hall, C. M. (2000). Tourism and Migration: New Relationships Between Production and Consumption. Tourism Geographies, 2(1), 5−27. Williams, A. M., & Hall, C. M. (2002). Tourism, Migration, Circulation and Mobility: The ...

  • Ethnographic Methods
    Ethnographic Methods

    Perhaps the first example of team ethnography was the famous Torres Straits Expedition led by Alfred Haddon and involving seven researchers, including W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Seligman, two other psychologists, a linguist and a ...

  • Key Concepts in Ethnography
    Key Concepts in Ethnography

    Led by Alfred Haddon, it involved seven researchers, including W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Seligman, two other psychologists, a linguist, and a photographer (see Herle and Rouse, 1998). However, though this expedition approach was common, ...

  • International Migration and Social Theory
    International Migration and Social Theory

    Adkins, L. (2004) 'Reflexivity: Freedom or Habit of Gender', in L. Adkins and B. Skeggs (eds) Feminism After Bourdieu (Oxford: Blackwell) pp. 191–210. Agadjanian, V. (2008) 'Research on International Migration within Sub-Saharan Africa: ...

  • Key Concepts in Ethnography
    Key Concepts in Ethnography

    Another is Geertz's (1973) elaborate depiction of a Balinese cockfight, which not only illustrates his thick description but also his theoretical interpretation that the cockfight is a dramatic playing-out of status concerns in Bali; ...

  • The British on The Costa Del Sol
    The British on The Costa Del Sol

    Garcia, S. 143 Gaughan, J. and Ferman, L. 124 Geertz, C. 8, 10 ghettos 119—20 Gledhill, J. 162 Goward, N.J. 15 Graburn, ... D. 121, 126 Hobsbawm, E. 109 Holbrook, C. 59, 135 holiday migration 51 Holmes, E.R. and Holmes, L. 60 Holohan, ...

  • Ethnographic Methods
    Ethnographic Methods

    ... include ethnographies such as Goffman's Asylums (1961) as well as the many other studies of health and illness in non-medical settings such as Bloor (1985) and Prout (1986) we see the field is larger than might at first be thought.

  • About Face: a Consumer's Guide to Facial Cosmetic Surgery in Canada
    About Face: a Consumer's Guide to Facial Cosmetic Surgery in Canada

    ... expectations of patients , 130-5 ; initial surgery , 136-42 ; psychology of patients , 125-30 , 142 ; revisional treatment , 142-5 ; recovery , 146-8 ; saddle nose , 137-40 ; see also 3 , 9 , 19 , 20-1 , 84 , 120 Robbins , Dr. J.

  • The British on the Costa Del Sol: Transnational Identities and Local Communities
    The British on the Costa Del Sol: Transnational Identities and Local Communities

    Portes , A. , Castells , M. and Benton , L.A. ( eds ) 1989. The Informal Economy . Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries ... London : George Allen & Unwin , pp . 231–57 . Robinson , V. 1996. ' Introduction : the geographical ...

  • Key Concepts in Thinking Sociologically

    Key Concepts in Thinking Sociologically

  • Ethnographic Methods
    Ethnographic Methods

    Inglis, D.andHughson, J.(2003) Confronting Culture, Cambridge:Polity. Jackson, A. (1987)Anthropology atHome, ... Lassman, P. (1974)aPhenomenological perspectives insociology«, inJ.Rex (ed.)Approaches to Sociology, London: Routledgeand ...

  • Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama
    Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

    This book provides an in-depth analysis of the interplay of colonial traces and neoliberal presents, the relationship between residential tourism and economic development, and the governance and regulation of lifestyle migration.

  • The British on The Costa Del Sol
    The British on The Costa Del Sol

    Chapman, M. and Prothero, R.M. 1985. 'Themes on circulation in the Third World' in Prothero, R.M. and Chapman, M. Circulation in Third World Countries. London: Routledge 8c Kegan Paul, pp. 1—29. Clark, B. 1965. Dark Ghetto.

  • The British on the Costa Del Sol: Transnational Identities and Local Communities
    The British on the Costa Del Sol: Transnational Identities and Local Communities

    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Powdermaker , H. 1966. Stranger and Friend . New York : W.W. Norton . Prus , R. 1997 Subcultural Mosaics and Intersubjective Realities . An Ethnographic Research Agenda for Pragmatizing the ...

  • Tell Me Why You Fled: True Stories of Seeking Refuge
    Tell Me Why You Fled: True Stories of Seeking Refuge

    A candid and irreverent memoir about helping people find refuge - from war, and torture and genocide - as a young woman seeking refuge from herself.

  • Voice Our Concern: A Human Rights Education Module for Transition Year

    Voice Our Concern: A Human Rights Education Module for Transition Year

  • Conversations on the Costa

    Conversations on the Costa is a unique collection of the stories, experiences, thoughts and feelings of British people who have moved to Spain and the Spanish people they now live amongst.

  • Ethnographic Methods
    Ethnographic Methods

    "This new edition of Karen O'Reilly's popular Ethnographic methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research ...

  • Emergencies in Primary Care
    Emergencies in Primary Care

    If examination is needed, see the patient. Emergency calls: nearly all ... Worried patients find it difficult to cope with complicated telephone referral systems or messages. Appear helpful rather than ... If in doubt—see the patient.