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Producing Public
Television, Producing Public Culture
Barry Dornfeld, A80
Princeton University Press
From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld
had an unusual double role on the crew of the PBS documentary Childhood. As
a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children
and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production
process itself—how producers, for example, developed the series, negotiated
with the academic advisors and shaped footage shot around the world into seven
programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study—one
of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television
show, as opposed to its reception. Dornfeld, an associate at the Center for
Applied Research in Philadelphia, is a producer of documentary ethnographic
films, including Powerhouse for God (1988) and Gandy Dancers (1992). In this
pioneering ethnography, he provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major
documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study
of television.
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Alumni Authors
Gottfried Keller and His Critics:
A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism
Richard Ruppell,
G78
Camden House
Richard Ruppell, a German professor
at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, brings to light the correspondence
and contributions of Gottfried Keller, perhaps the greatest author to emerge
in nineteenth-century Switzerland and one of the most prominent writing in German
in the mid-nineteenth century. The book explores 150 years of the most important
scholarship and criticism on Keller and his fiction.
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The Common Place
of Law:
Stories from Everyday Life
Patricia Ewick, J76, and
Susan Silbey
The University
of Chicago Press
Why do some people take a neighbor
to court over a barking dog while others accept the pains and losses associated
with defective products or discrimination without seeking legal recourse? Patricia
Ewick, associate professor of sociology and associate dean at Clark University,
and Susan Silbey, sociology professor at Wellesley College, have collected accounts
from more than 400 people to explore the different ways people use and experience
the law. Drawing on these case studies, they construct a compelling theory of
legality and legal institutions in everyday life.
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Information Architecture
for the World Wide Web
Peter
Morville, A91 and Louis Rosenfeld
O'Reilly & Associates
O'Reilly & Associates Web
Series Information Architecture for the World Wide Web quickly became a best
seller last year, as thousands of web professionals found it an excellent resource
for improving their web sites and intranets, and faculty found it a good match
for college courses. Called “the best Internet book of 1998 by Amazon.
com editors, it has sold more then 15,000 copies and been translated into Japanese
and Korean. The authors’ practical advice guides readers by providing a
framework, terminology and a process for making informed decisions. Morville
is vice president of Argus Associates Inc., of Ann Arbor, MI, a leading information
architecture consulting firm.
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Faculty Authors
Sisters In Law: Women
Lawyers in Modern American History
Virginia G. Drachman
Harvard University Press
More than any other profession that
women entered in the nineteenth century, law was the most rigidly engendered.
This history of women lawyers from the 1860s to the 1930s, defines the contours
of women’s integration into the modern legal profession, and provides the
first scholarly history of women’s efforts to practice law in the United
States. Drachman, an associate professor of history at Tufts who is considered
the leading scholar in the history of women lawyers, interweaves individual
stories with larger patterns to study barriers presented by the legal profession
and by society’s expectations.
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Directors and Trustees:
A Candid Assessment of Their Motivation and Performance
Nils Yngve Wessell
Vantage Press
Once considered to be little more
than honorary functionaries, the boards of profit and nonprofit organizations
have recently come under serious public scrutiny, says Nils Yngve Wessell, former
president of Tufts, where he was also dean of liberal arts and chair of the
Psychology Department. The ineffective use of power and responsibility, argues
Wessell, has led to board and management shake-ups. Wessell examines what characterizes
successful managerial boards and how they support an organization’s ventures.
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