ABSTRACT
There are a great many different forms of applied ethnographic projects. In the past two decades the diffusion of ethnographic techniques into widely varied issues, programs, and disciplines has created a truly complicated mosaic of types of studies. This chapter begins with a 'bare-bones' outline of main steps you are likely to follow in an applied ethnographic study. There will, of course, be many research projects that take a different shape, and one will face tasks that are not included in this outline. When one ready to begin research in a new field site, he/she can use this set of suggestions and selectively examine chapters that are related to specific research steps and components. Faced with that sort of challenge, one might consider that the various categories of 'partners' are somewhat like ethnic groups, as each category has a distinct vocabulary and distinct organizational norms, and that they have different types and sources of economic and political influence.
