Contemporary field research : perspectives and formulations / [edited by] Robert M. Emerson.

Other author Emerson, Robert M.
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoIllinois : Waveland Press, Inc., 2001.
Description1 online resource (xi, 433 p.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1672943
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Contents Introduction: The Development of Ethnographic Field Research -- Pt. I: The Face of Contemporary Ethnography -- Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / Clifford Geertz -- Telling the Convict Code / D. Lawrence Wieder -- Ethnography and the Representation of Reality / Paul Atkinson -- Ethnography and Realism / Martyn Hammersley -- Pt. II: Fieldwork Practice: Issues in Participant Observation -- On Fieldwork / Erving Goffman -- Insider Field Research in Minority Communities / Maxine Baca Zinn -- On the Evolution of Sidewalk / Mitchell Duneier -- How the Problem of "Crafting Selves" Emerged / Dorrine K. Kondo -- Gender and Fieldwork Relations / Carol A. B. Warren -- Learning from Kids / Barrie Thorne -- Constructing Participant/Observation Relations / Robert M. Emerson and Melvin Pollner -- Trial and Tribulations: Courts, Ethnography, and the Need for an Evidentiary Privilege for Academic Researchers / Richard A. Leo -- Pt. III: Producing Ethnographies: Theory, Evidence and Representation -- The Epistemology of Qualitative Research / Howard S. Becker -- Analytic Induction Revisited / Jack Katz -- Grounded Theory / Kathy Charmaz -- Tricks of the Trade / Howard S. Becker -- Ethnography's Warrants / Jack Katz -- Techniques of Validation in Qualitative Research: A Critical Commentary / Michael Bloor.
General noteA collection of 18 papers by the editor and other scholars.
General noteRev. ed. of the 1983 ed. subtitled "a collection of readings."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 3970-426) and index.
LanguageThis edition in English.

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