Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Sites, Selves, and Social Worlds

ISBN-13: 9781032230009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str.

Amir B. Marvasti; Jaber F. Gubrium

Opis

Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges, it showcases ethnographic fieldwork as ongoing analytic engagement with concrete social worlds. From engagements with boxing and nightlife to preschooling and migratory encampments, portrayed is a process that is anything but a set of pre-packaged challenges and hurdles of simple-minded procedural tropes such as entrée, rapport, and departure. Instead, ethnography emerges as what it has been from its beginnings: a rough-and-ready analytic matter of seeking understanding in unrecognized and diverse fields of interaction. Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in the practice of participant observation and related questions of research methodology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Contours of the Craft  PART I: SITES  1. Insider Ethnography in Professional Boxing  2. Getting at the Experience of Confinement in Detention  3. Working Against Social Order in Documenting Imprisonment  4. Site Juxtaposition and Constitutive Comparison in Provisional Encampments  PART II: SELVES  5. Is Ethnography Only for Early Career Researchers?  6. Senior Activists and Age Affiliations in Ethnographic Peering  7. Shifting Codes, Continual Vetting and Recurrent Rapport-Building  8. Creating Space for "Foreign Brides" to Talk Back  PART III: SOCIAL WORLDS  9. Preschool Social Worlds in Interactional Context  10. Going Concerns of Ethnographic Membership  11. When Fieldwork Comes Home  12. Interpretive Complexity in Language Discordant Fieldwork  PART IV: AFTERWORD  Elaborating Contours of the Craft