Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriented books, articles, or reports. The reader is taught how to combine historic and contemporary documents (e.g. archives, newspapers, government reports) with fieldwork methods (e.g participant-observation, interviews, and self-reporting) to create ethnographic studies of disadvantaged populations. Anthropologists, Sociologists, Folklorists, and Educational researchers will equally benefit from this critical approach to research.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods......Page 14
Part A: Methods for Macro-Level Research......Page 28
2 Using Historical Sources for Ethnographic Research......Page 30
3 Contemporary Scholarly Sources and a Theoretical Orientation......Page 46
4 Newspapers and Government Documents: Popular and Official Sources of Information......Page 66
Part B: Methods for Micro-Level Research......Page 82
5 Participant-Observation as a Research Method......Page 84
6 Interviewing......Page 106
7 Self-Reporting......Page 120
Part C: Putting the Ethnography Together......Page 130
8 Analysis......Page 132
9 Creating and Testing Theory......Page 152
10 Academic and Practical Writing......Page 162
Appendix: A Methodological Check List......Page 172
Notes......Page 174
Bibliography......Page 178
E......Page 184
L......Page 185
S......Page 186
Y......Page 187