Doing ethnographies / Mike Crang and Ian Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crang, Mike.

Contributor:

Cook, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2007.

Summary:

Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world 'out there.' In five chapters it presents a systematic overview of: first principles; preparing for fieldwork; constructing ethnographic information; analyzing field materials; and writing. This is a guide to the issues and methods which have to be considered when doing an ethnography. Informed by the authors fieldwork experience, it demonstrates how methods work in the field and prepares the first-time ethnographer for the loss of control and direction often experienced. This is a practical guide to methods in the field, to the relation between theory, practice, and writing.

Notes:

"The earlier version of Doing Ethnographies was exclusively available from Mrs. C. Flack in Norwich, England"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-239) and index.

ISBN:

0761944451

9780761944454

076194446X

9780761944461

OCLC:

62344207