Handbook of ethnography / edited by Paul Atkinson ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkinson, Paul, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 2007.

Summary:

Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This Handbook provides an unparelleled critical guide to its principles and practice. The volume is organized into three parts. The first systematically locate ethnography in its relevant historical and intellectual contexts. The roots of ethnography are pinpointed and the pattern of its development is demonstrated. The second part examines the contribution of ethnography to major fields of substantive research. The impact and strengths and weaknesses of ethnographic method are dealt with authoritatively and accessibly. The third part moves on to examine key debates and issues in ethnography, from the conduct of research through to contemporary arguments. The result is a landmark work in the field which draws on the expertise of an internationally renowned group of interdisciplinary scholars. The Handbook provides readers with a one-stop critical guide to the past, present and future of ethnography. It will quickly establish itself as the ethnographer's bible.

Contents:

Editorial Introduction 1

1 The Chicago School of Ethnography / Mary Jo Deegan 11

2 Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography / Paul Rock 26

3 Currents of Cultural Fieldwork / James D. Faubion 39

4 British Social Anthropology / Sharon Macdonald 60

5 Into the Community / Lodewijk Brunt 80

6 Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods / Liz Stanley 92

7 Orientalism / Julie Marcus 109

8 Ethnomethodology and Ethnography / Melvin Pollner, Robert M. Emerson 118

9 Phenomenology and Ethnography / Ilja Maso 136

10 Semiotics, Semantics and Ethnography / Peter K. Manning 145

11 Grounded Theory in Ethnography / Kathy Charmaz, Richard G. Mitchell 160

12 The Ethnography of Health and Medicine / Michael Bloor 177

13 Ethnographic Research in Educational Settings / Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland, Elina Lahelma 188

14 Ethnography and the Study of Deviance / Dick Hobbs 204

15 Ethnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnographers / Vicki Smith 220

16 Ethnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies / David Hess 234

17 Ethnography in the Study of Children and Childhood / Allison James 246

18 Ethnography and Material Culture / Christopher Tilley 258

19 Ethnography: A Critical Turn in Cultural Studies / Joost Van Loon 273

20 The Ethnography of Communication / Elizabeth Keating 285

21 Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film / Mike Ball, Greg Smith 302

22 Ethnography as Work: Career Socialization, Settings and Problems / Christopher Wellin, Gary Alan Fine 323

23 The Ethics of Ethnography / Elizabeth Murphy, Robert Dingwall 339

24 Participant Observation and Fieldnotes / Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw 352

25 Ethnographic Interviewing / Barbara Sherman Heyl 369

26 Narrative Analysis in Ethnography / Martin Cortazzi 384

27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research / Ken Plummer 395

28 Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography / Deborah Reed-Danahay 407

29 Feminist Ethnography / Beverley Skeggs 426

30 Ethnography After Postmodernism / Jonathan Spencer 443

31 Computer Applications in Qualitative Research / Nigel Fielding 453

32 Ethnodrama: Performed Research - Limitations and Potential / Jim Mienczakowski 468

33 Postmodernism, Post-structuralism and Post(Critical) Ethnography: Of Ruins, Aporias and Angels / Patti Lather 477.

Notes:

Originally published: 2001; paperback 2007.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9781412946063

1412946069

OCLC:

81453684