Doing ethnographies
Mike Crang (Author), Ian Cook
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
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations
9781848607477, 9781849208949, 9780761944461, 1848607474, 1849208948, 076194446X
646770575
Introduction
Section 1. Getting ready. Conceptualising the subject ; Preparing for fieldwork
Section 2. Constructing ethnographic information. Participant observation ; Interviewing ; Focus groups ; Filmic approaches
Section 3. Pulling it together. Analysing field materials ; Writing through materials ; Go forth and do ...?
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