Campbell / Lassiter Doing Ethnography Today

Theories, Methods, Exercises
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-89634-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies andtheories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography andprovides an opportunity to cultivate experience with includedexercises.

* Presents ethnography as creative and artful ratherthan analytical or technical

* Emphasises the collaborative nature ofethnography

* Structured exercises cultivate practical experience

* Includes a discussion on indexing and interpretingproject materials

* Provides guidance on interview questions and selectingappropriate field equipment

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Elizabeth

Lassiter, Luke Eric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface x
1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Ethnography 1
Ethnography is as Personal as it Gets 4
Ethnography is Collaborative 5
Ethnography is Hermeneutic 6
Ethnography is Creative and Constitutive 7
Ethnography Grapples with the Idea of Culture, however DeeplyCompromised 8
Ethnography is Mostly Art 8
Exercise - Taking Stock: Exploring your Limits andPossibilities 10
Suggested Readings 13
Suggested Websites 14
2 Fields of Collaboration 15
The Field Today 19
On the Actual Complexities of Collaboration 21
Exercise - Engaging Collaborators and Creating ResearchQuestions 24
Suggested Readings 26
Suggested Websites 27
3 Emergent Design 30
Exercise - Intentional Reciprocity 32
Uncertainty and the Collaborative Process 34
Ethics and Ethical Commitments 36
Exercise - Developing Project Codes of Ethics 39
Recognition or Anonymity? 40
Exercise - Ethics, IRBs, and Other Subjects 41
Issues of Authority: Ethnographer as Facilitator, ResearchParticipant as Counterpart 44
Exercise - Revisiting Project Limits and Possibilities46
Suggested Readings 47
Suggested Websites 48
4 Engagement: Participant Observation and ObservantParticipation 50
Exercise - One Scene, Many Positions 54
Participation 56
Interlude: Equipment Check 61
From Participant Observation to Observant Participation 64
Fieldnotes: From Definitions, Meanings, and Practices to StoriedObservations 66
Exercise - Developing Your Own (Fieldnotes) Style 69
On Fieldnote Forms 72
Exercise - Writing With 75
By Way of Conclusion . . . 77
Suggested Readings 80
Suggested Websites 80
5 Interviews and Conversations 84
Living with Interviews 87
Exercise - Issues for Interviews 89
The Changing Nature of Interviews 94
Exercise - Interviews as Conversations 97
Interviews (and Conversations) in Ethnographic Research 98
Exercise - Talking about Transcripts 104
Suggested Readings 108
Suggested Websites 109
6 Inscriptions: On Writing Ethnography 113
Exercise - Making Sense of Materials 116
"What is Ethnography?" Redux: On the Emergence ofContemporary Ethnographic Forms 120
Exercise - Writing Ethnography 126
Toward Collaborative Writing and Transformation 129
Exercise - Collaborative Writing 131
Suggested Readings 134
Suggested Websites 135
Index 138

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Campbell is Assistant Professor of Curriculumand Instruction at Marshall University's College of Educationand Professional Development, USA. Before moving to academe,she worked in community development as a folklorist, writer, andmuseum curator.Luke Eric Lassiter is Professor of Humanities andAnthropology and Director of Marshall University's GraduateHumanities Program, USA. His books include The Chicago Guide toCollaborative Ethnography (2005) and Invitation toAnthropology (4th edition, 2014). In 2007, hefounded the journal Collaborative Anthropologies and servedas its editor or co-editor until 2013.