Ethnographic fieldwork : a beginner's guide / Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie
Material type: TextPublication details: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2010Description: v, 92 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781847692955 (hbk : alk. paper)
- 1847692958 (hbk : alk. paper)
- 9781847692948 (pbk : alk. paper)
- 184769294X (pbk : alk. paper)
- 9781847692962 (ebook)
- 1847692966 (ebook)
- 305.800723 22
- GN 346 .B56 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Ethnography -- Ethnography as a paradigm -- Resources and dialectics -- Ethnography as counter-hegemony -- The ethnographic argument -- The sequence 1: prior to fieldwork -- The sequence 2: in the field -- Chaos -- The learning process -- Observation and fieldnotes -- Interviewing -- Collecting rubbish -- Conclusion -- The sequence 3: after fieldwork -- Your data -- Techniques and methods -- Analysing narratives -- Postscript.
This text describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about to begin with, facilitated by theoretical and methodological instruments. The book provides an easy to read introduction to quite complex ideas about knowledge.
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