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The ethnography of craft and the craft of ethnography : asking for help in the workplace / Najate Zouggari.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526444349 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.137042 23
Online resources: This case study questions ethnographic practice and focuses on a specific social interaction: how members of a professional group (cabinetmakers) ask for help in the workshop. The aim of this contribution is to give an example of potential uses of ethnographic tools--such as observation--and to encourage students to exercise an ethnographic awareness while bearing in mind and questioning the effects of their own social position on their research.
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This case study questions ethnographic practice and focuses on a specific social interaction: how members of a professional group (cabinetmakers) ask for help in the workshop. The aim of this contribution is to give an example of potential uses of ethnographic tools--such as observation--and to encourage students to exercise an ethnographic awareness while bearing in mind and questioning the effects of their own social position on their research.

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