Reflexive ethnography : a guide to researching selves and others / Charlotte Aull Davies.
Series: ASA research method seriesPublisher: London : Routledge, 2007Edition: 2nd edDescription: 304 p001: 43818ISBN: 9780415409018 (pbk.) :; 9780415409025 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Ethnology -- Research | SocietyDDC classification: 305.80072 DAV LOC classification: GN345 | .D37 2007Summary: Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology but the modernism/postmodernism, self/other and subjectivity/objectivity themes in contemporary debate put the value of fieldwork into question. This text tackles the issues.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic authority.
Davies examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural levels, should be integrated into ethnographic research and discusses how this can be accomplished for a variety of research methods. This revised and updated second edition includes:
anbsp;new chapter on internet-based research and 'interethnography' chapters on selection of topics and methods, data collection and analysis, and ethics and politics of research practical advice on writing up ethnographic study new and updated research examples.Postmodernist relativism can lead to an over-emphasis on reflexivity that denies the possibility of social research. Reflexive Ethnography utilises postmodernist insights - incorporation of different standpoints, exposure of the intellectual tyranny of meta-narratives - but proposes that reflexive ethnographic research be undertaken from a realist perspective. Reflexive Ethnography will help students to use and understand ethnographic research practices that fully incorporate reflexivity without abandoning claims to develop valid knowledge of social reality.
Previous ed.: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology but the modernism/postmodernism, self/other and subjectivity/objectivity themes in contemporary debate put the value of fieldwork into question. This text tackles the issues.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface to the first edition (p. vii)
- Preface to the second edition (p. ix)
- Part I Preparations (p. 1)
- 1 Reflexivity and ethnographic research (p. 3)
- 2 Selecting topics and methods (p. 28)
- 3 Ethics and politics (p. 53)
- Part II In the field (p. 75)
- 4 Observing, participating (p. 77)
- 5 Interviewing (p. 105)
- 6 Using visual methods (p. 129)
- 7 Internet ethnography (p. 151)
- 8 Structuring research: surveys, networks, discourse analysis (p. 171)
- 9 Expanding the ethnographic present: documents, life history, narrative, longitudinal studies (p. 193)
- 10 Researching selves: the uses of autobiography (p. 216)
- Part III Mediations (p. 229)
- 11 Formalizing analysis (p. 231)
- 12 Writing up, concluding (p. 254)
- Bibliography (p. 273)
- Name index (p. 300)
- Subject index (p. 306)
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