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Reflexive ethnography : a guide to researching selves and others / Charlotte Aull Davies.
LIBRA GN345 .D37 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Charlotte Aull.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Research.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Summary:
- Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology. However, contemporary debate on themes such as modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity and self/other put the value of fieldwork into question. Reflexive Ethnography provides a practical and comprehensive guide to ethnographic research methods which fully engages with these significant issues.
- Reflexive Ethnography tackles all the relevant research questions, including chapters on selection of topics and methods, data collection, analysis, and ethics and politics. Charlotte Aull Davies stresses the positive contributions of reflexivity to methodology. Reflexive ethnography can generate a unique from of material that is neither accessible directly through native texts nor simply a reflection of the individual anthropologist's psyche. Instead ethnographic practice can fully incorporate reflexivity without abandoning its claims to develop valid knowledge of social reality. Reflexive Ethnography is essential reading for anthropologists and any student embarking on social science research.
- Contents:
- Part I Preparations 1
- 1 Reflexivity and ethnographic research 3
- 2 Selecting topics and methods 26
- 3 Ethics and politics 45
- Part II In the field 65
- 4 Observing, participating 67
- 5 Interviewing 94
- 6 Using visual media 117
- 7 Structuring research: surveys, networks, cognitive analysis 136
- 8 Expanding the ethnographic present: documents, life histories, longitudinal studies 156
- 9 Researching selves: the uses of autobiography 178
- Part III Mediations 191
- 10 Formalizing analysis 193
- 11 Writing up, concluding 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-252) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0415151902
- 0415151910
- OCLC:
- 39465228
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