The Ethnographic Interview

✍ Scribed by James P. Spradley

Publisher: Waveland Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Edition: Reissued
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"The Ethnographic Interview is a practical, self-teaching handbook that guides readers step-by-step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The text also shows how to analyze collected data and how to write an ethnography. Appendices include research questions and writing tasks.".

✦ Table of Contents

Ethnography and culture --
Language and field work --
Informants --
Locating an informant --
Interviewing an informant --
Making an ethnographic record --
Asking descriptive questions --
Analyzing ethnographic interviews --
Making a domain analysis --
Asking structural questions --
Making a taxonomic analysis --
Asking contrast questions --
Making a componential analysis --
Discovering cultural themes --
Writing an ethnography --
A taxonomy of ethnographic questions --
Developmental research sequence writing tasks --
The developmental research sequence method.

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