Doing Ethnographies

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SAGE, 6 apr. 2007 - 244 pagini
Informed by the authors fieldwork experience, the book covers the relation between theory, practice and writing, and demonstrates how methods work in the field, so preparing the first-time ethnographer for the loss of control and direction often experienced. In five short chapters it presents a systematic overview of: - first principles - the role of the detached researcher , the idea of a pure culture - preparing for fieldwork - initiating access, the relation of knowledge to ethics - constructing ethnographic information - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, filmic approache.

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Introduction
1
GETTING READY
5
Conceptualising the subject
7
The detached researcher?
8
The pure subject?
9
The pure culture?
11
Subjective conclusions?
13
Summary
15
Group dynamics
95
Moderator roles
98
Constructing information
102
Filmic approaches
104
Making pictures in and of the field
105
Alreadyexisting photos
109
Autophotography
111
Film and video
113

Preparing for fieldwork
17
Initiating access
19
Talking the talk
22
Power knowledge and ethics
26
Summary
32
CONSTRUCTING ETHNOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
35
Participant observation
37
Access
38
Roles and relationships
40
Language in context
48
Constructing information
50
Interviewing
60
Making arrangements
62
Preparing a checklist
66
Asking the right questions
68
Serial interviews
73
Constructing information
81
Focus groups
90
Setting up
91
Constructing information
120
Summary
127
PULLING IT TOGETHER
129
Analysing field materials
131
Preliminary work
134
Developing codes
140
Sifting sorting and making sense of it all
142
validity and reliability
146
Writing through materials
150
Writing as research practice
152
Writing styles
157
concerns and criteria?
202
Go forth and do?
207
About the authors
208
Notes
210
References
217
Index
240
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Mike Crang′s interests lie in the field of cultural geography. He has worked extensively on the relationship of social memory and identity. Within this he focused empirically upon on practices of public and oral history, photography and museums looking especially at examples in the UK and Sweden. This interest feeds into looking at what people make of museums and landscapes and thus the study of tourism more generally. He has an edited collection on this theme that was published in 2009(Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities, edited with Pau Obrador and Penny Travlou, Ashgate) and a previous collection (Tourism: between place and performance, with Simon Coleman, Berghahn 2002) as well as co-editing the journal ′Tourist Studies′ for ten years from its inception. He is currrently working on the intersection of film, photography and tourism - through a case study using Captain Corelli and Cephallonia.

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