Practicing ethnography: a student guide to method and methodology

✍ Scribed by McGarry, Karen Ann,Mannik, Lynda

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This methods book is theoretically informed but practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography in North America. The authors emphasize an inductive, ethnographic approach to research. Each chapter offers an overview of a particular method, methodological issue, or research trend, followed by an extended ethnographic vignette-written exclusively for this volume-by contemporary anthropologists about their fieldwork experiences. These highly readable vignettes showcase how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory, offering a unique way to discuss major concepts, methods, and methodologies. "Try This" and "Possible Projects" sections encourage newcomers to anthropology to apply what they have learned in their own ethnographic experiences.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction Section I: Origins and Basics 1. The Origins and Development of Socio-cultural Anthropological Fieldwork in North America 2. Traditional and Contemporary Participant Observation 3. Ethics and the Politics of Fieldwork 4. Connecting with Others -Interviewing, Conversations, and Life Histories Section II: Notes, Data, Representation 5. How to Create Field Notes 6. After Fieldwork - Analyzing Data 7. Writing Up and the Politics of Representation Section III: Shifting Field Sites 8. Applied Ethnography 9. Auto-ethnography: the Self and Other Revisited Section IV: Visual Aids 10. Photo-elicitation: Collaboration, Emotions, and Memory 11. Ethnographic Film as Ethnographic Method 12. Doing Research with, and in, Virtual Communities

✦ Subjects

Ethnology--Fieldwork;Ethnology--Fieldwork--North America;Ethnology--Methodology;Ethnology--Research;Methodologie;Visual anthropology;Visual anthropology--North America;Lehrbuch;Ethnology -- Methodology;Ethnology -- Research;Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- North America;Ethnology -- Fieldwork;Visual anthropology -- North America;North America