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On ethnography / Sarah Daynes, Terry Williams.

Author/creator Daynes, Sarah author.
Other author/creatorWilliams, Terry M. (Terry Moses), 1948- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice ©2018
Descriptionix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction : the mission -- Foundations of ethnographic fieldwork -- Thinking about it -- Getting involved -- Being there -- Seeing, writing, narrating : fieldnotes -- Writing up.
Abstract "In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, 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. In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team up to explore the art of ethnographic research and the many complex decisions it requires. Using their extensive fieldwork experience in the United States and Europe, and hours spent in the classroom training new ethnographers, they illustrate, discuss, and reflect on the key skills and tools required for successful research, including research design, entry and exit, participant observation, fieldnotes, ethics, and writing up. Covering both the theoretical foundations and practical realities of ethnography, this highly readable and entertaining book will be invaluable to students in sociology and other disciplines in which ethnography has become a core qualitative research method"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Daynes, Sarah. On ethnography. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2018 9780745685632
LCCN 2017040360
ISBN9780745685595 hardcover
ISBN0745685595 hardcover
ISBN9780745685601 paperback
ISBN0745685609 paperback

Available Items

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Joyner General Stacks GN345 .D39 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold