Contemporary field research : perspectives and formulations / [edited by] Robert M. Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Robert M., author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Anthropology online.

Anthropology online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology.

Sociology--Fieldwork.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 433 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., 2001.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: The Development of Ethnographic Field Research

Pt. I: The Face of Contemporary Ethnography

Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / Clifford Geertz

Telling the Convict Code / D. Lawrence Wieder

Ethnography and the Representation of Reality / Paul Atkinson

Ethnography and Realism / Martyn Hammersley

Pt. II: Fieldwork Practice: Issues in Participant Observation

On Fieldwork / Erving Goffman

Insider Field Research in Minority Communities / Maxine Baca Zinn

On the Evolution of Sidewalk / Mitchell Duneier

How the Problem of "Crafting Selves" Emerged / Dorrine K. Kondo

Gender and Fieldwork Relations / Carol A. B. Warren

Learning from Kids / Barrie Thorne

Constructing Participant/Observation Relations / Robert M. Emerson and Melvin Pollner

Trial and Tribulations: Courts, Ethnography, and the Need for an Evidentiary Privilege for Academic Researchers / Richard A. Leo

Pt. III: Producing Ethnographies: Theory, Evidence and Representation

The Epistemology of Qualitative Research / Howard S. Becker

Analytic Induction Revisited / Jack Katz

Grounded Theory / Kathy Charmaz

Tricks of the Trade / Howard S. Becker

Ethnography's Warrants / Jack Katz

Techniques of Validation in Qualitative Research: A Critical Commentary / Michael Bloor.

Notes:

A collection of 18 papers by the editor and other scholars.

Rev. ed. of the 1983 ed. subtitled "a collection of readings."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 3970-426) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Anthropology online). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

654444643

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