Practicing ethnography : a student guide to method and methodology / edited by Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry.

"Building on the "studying up" and "studying at home" trend in Anthropology, this methods book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenge and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw...

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Other Authors: Mannik, Lynda, 1957- (Editor), McGarry, Karen, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: North York, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, New York, USA : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Origins and basics. 1. The origins and development of sociocultural anthropological fieldwork in North America ; 2. Participant observation ; 3. Ethics and the politics of fieldwork ; 4. Connecting with others : interviewing, conversations, and life histories
  • Part II. Notes, data, and representation. 5. How to create field notes ; 6. After fieldwork - analyzing data ; 7. Writing up and the politics of representation
  • Part III. Shifting field sites. 8. Applied anthropology ; 9. Autoethnography : the self and other revisited
  • Part IV. Visual aids. 10. Photo-elicitation : collaboration, memory, and emotion ; 11. Ethnographic film as ethnographic method ; 12. Doing research with and in virtual communities ; culture, community, and the Internet.