Ethnographic Video Online Available to Purchase

Alexander Street Press' growing corpus of works in the social sciences and humanities includes Ethnographic Video Online (EVO), an outstanding documentary video resource for academic, public, and school libraries (Johnson, 2010). As of April 2011 the collection includes 682 videos, with an eventual target of some 1,000 films. EVO is part of Alexander Street's Critical Video series. A uniform search interface is slated for expansion to cover all Alexander Street collections in 2011 (Siegel, 2011).

EVO's goal is to include “hundreds of the most frequently assigned films” conveying the direct experience of “the field”, of cultural...