The invisible ethnographer - working with people, real life and up close

Explorations into consumer's ordinary everyday life experiences are now the uncharted frontier for market researchers.

The invisible ethnographer – working with people, real life and up close

Nick LeonNaked Eye Research, United Kingdom

INTRODUCTION

“No amount of anthropological training or theory could have prepared me for the field as life had ... “we use ourselves and our own personal experience as primary research tools.” C. W. Watson, 1999

I have lived with families facing crisis, learnt what it meant to live with Alzheimer's, been invited to an Army fish fry in Philadelphia, been bored to tears in Birmingham by a housewife explaining the ways she cooks potatoes – most of these are just normal...

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