Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Atkinson, Paul, 1947-

Description

1. xi, 275 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software, adn the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. What this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity in Chapter One, the authors go on to discuss and exemplify the main features of ethnographic work.

Subject

1. Ethnology > Methodology
2. Ethnology > Fieldwork
3. Social sciences > Fieldwork
4. 73.06 ethnography
5. Ethnologie
6. Feldforschung
7. Methode
8. Etnografie
9. Veldwerk
10. Anthropology > Methodology
11. Anthropology > Fieldwork

Contents

1. What is ethnography? -- Research design : problems, cases, and samples -- Access -- Field relations -- Oral accounts and the role of interviewing -- Documents and other artefacts, real and virtual -- Recording and organizing data -- The process of analysis -- Writing ethnography -- Ethics -- Epilogue : a distinctive analytic mentality.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-266) and index.