On Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9780745685595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Sarah Daynes; Terry Williams

Opis

In turn creative thinker and street flaneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life.

Recenzje

On Ethnography is an exquisite essay on the ethnographic study of everyday life. Page by page we step into the field and linger with Daynes and Williams, deliberate the knotty paradox of social responsibility, experience the self–exposure of documenting, and find ourselves debating the nature of explanation, description, and interpretation. An impassioned and persuasive treatise on the process of doing and writing ethnography.
Carol Stack, University of California, Berkeley

On Ethnography effectively describes the process of conducting fieldwork, while providing a rationale for the narrative style that documents ethnographically what subjects say and do together. Students of local culture will find this well–written and illuminating work highly informative and compelling.
Elijah Anderson, Yale University

Spis treści

The Mission Chapter 1 Foundations of ethnographic fieldwork Chapter 2 Thinking about it Chapter 3 Getting involved Chapter 4 Being there Chapter 5 Seeing, Writing, Narrating Ñ Field Notes Chapter 6 Writing about it References

O autorze

Sarah Daynes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Terry Williams is Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research