Ethnografische Feldforschung hat das anspruchsvolle Ziel, Annaherungen an das Wirklichkeitserleben und die alltaglichen Handlungspraxen anderer Menschen zu ermoeglichen. Der Forschungsprozess zeichnet sich durch eine Komplexitat aus, die selbst fur qualitative empirische Sozialforschung ungewoehnlich ist; die gewonnenen Daten sind sehr vielschichtig. Die ethnografische Gruppensupervision fur Feldforschende ist eine Antwort auf diese Herausforderungen. Der Band stellt dieses Instrumentarium zur Reflexion und Auswertung ethnografischer Feldforschungen in Form von methodologischen Erlauterungen und konkreten Praxisbeispielen vor.

Erwin Eisch, a pioneer of the international Studio Glass movement, has helped establish the medium in Europe. His distinctively distorted glass vessels and imaginative sculptures of mould-blown glass challenge the distinctions between art forms and between realism and abstraction. This book also includes Eischs paintings, drawings and vitreographic prints. This book provides an introduction to the artist, from his development within the glass-making tradition of the Bavarian Forest to the present. Eisch began with functional vessels, including bottles, vases and steins, often distorting the hot glass, incorporating ceramic moulds and producing painted glass sculptures. Eisch uses glass, painting, drawing and printed graphics to overcome the borders between picture and sculpture. His later output includes drawings, paintings and prints. Eischs works incorporate vivid elements of imagination and fantasy, which supplement the reality that inspires him. This book includes essays, contributions by experts on his work, more than one hundred illustrations of Eischs work, and selected writings by the artist himself.