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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: North York, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, New York, USA : University of Toronto Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: x, 264 s. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781487593131
  • 1-4875-9313-9
  • 978-1-4875-9312-4
  • 1-4875-9312-0
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.01 23/swe
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic format.
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.
Summary: "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 from vignettes, all situated within North America, to learn how various methods work in the real world. Practicing ethnography in a contemporary context that is familiar to students allows for them to engage in experiential learning that will not only build useful research, organizing, and writing skills, but which will also link to important theoretical concepts in anthropology and the social sciences. The book emphasizes an inductive, ethnographic approach to research. Each chapter offers an overview of a particular method, methodological issue, or research trend, followed by an extended ethnographic vignette, written explicitly for this volume, from a contemporary anthropologist about their fieldwork experiences. These highly readable vignettes showcase how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory, offering a unique way to discuss major concepts, methods and methodologies, and encouraging students to practice what they have learned by suggesting projects and activities they can do "at home.""-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.

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.

"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 from vignettes, all situated within North America, to learn how various methods work in the real world. Practicing ethnography in a contemporary context that is familiar to students allows for them to engage in experiential learning that will not only build useful research, organizing, and writing skills, but which will also link to important theoretical concepts in anthropology and the social sciences. The book emphasizes an inductive, ethnographic approach to research. Each chapter offers an overview of a particular method, methodological issue, or research trend, followed by an extended ethnographic vignette, written explicitly for this volume, from a contemporary anthropologist about their fieldwork experiences. These highly readable vignettes showcase how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory, offering a unique way to discuss major concepts, methods and methodologies, and encouraging students to practice what they have learned by suggesting projects and activities they can do "at home.""-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic format.