Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographer--a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West--and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narrative analysis. Along the trail, she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain...

Listen up all you aspiring ethnographers interested in studying young uns. Shane the Lone Ethnographer needs to find out (lickety-split ) the basics of conducting research with young children (with the help of Billy the Literal Kid) in order to land a post-doc. position. Containing a homework assignment at the end of each chapter, this wise but witty Western-themed graphic textbook is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students in departments across the social sciences including anthropology, education, and family studies.
In this book, Shane as well as readers...