How to read ethnography
By: Paloma Gay y Blasco and Huon Wardle
Contributors: Wardle, Huon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780415328661; 9780415328678; 9780203390962
Subjects: Ethnology -- Authorship; Readers -- Ethnology; Ethnology -- Methodology
Description: "How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to other areas of study. Above all it enables students to read ethnographies anthropologically and to develop an anthropological imagination of their own. Combining lucid explanations with selections from key texts, this excellent guide is ideal reading for those new to the subject or in need of intellectual refreshment."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the concerns and distinctiveness of ethnography; title: Comparison : the ethnographic outlook; title: People in context; title: Relationships and meanings; title: Narrating the immediate; title: Ethnography as argument; title: The setting and the audience; title: Positioning the author; title: Big conversations and patterns of commitment