Expressions of ethnography : novel approaches to qualitative methods / [edited by] Robin Patric Clair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clair, Robin Patric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Research.

Qualitative research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A different approach to contemporary ethnography, embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express cultural experience.

Contents:

Intro

EXPRESSIONS OF ETHNOGRAPHY

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Introduction

PART ONE: An Overview of Ethnography

1. The Changing Story of Ethnography by ROBIN PATRIC CLAIR

PART TWO: Ethnographic Perspectives

2. Living and Writing Feminist Ethnographies: Threads in a Quilt Stitched from the Heart by PAMELA CHAPMAN SANGER

3. Musings on Critical Ethnography, Meanings, and Symbolic Violence by JIM THOMAS

4. What is Interpretive Ethnography? An Eclectic's Tale by H. L. GOODALL JR.

5. Postmodernism, Ethnography, and Communication Studies: Comments and a Case by BRYAN C. TAYLOR

6. An Ethics for Postcolonial Ethnography by MARIA CRISTINA GONZÁLEZ

7. The Beauty and Logic of Aesthetic Ethnography by ROBIN PATRIC CLAIR

PART THREE: Dialogue and Interview as Expressions of Ethnography

8. Ethnographic Interviewing as Contextualized Conversation by CHRISTINA W. STAGE AND MARIFRAN MATTSON

9. Contextualized Conversation: Interviewing Exemplars by MARIFRAN MATTSON AND CHRISTINA W. STAGE

10. Hearing Voices/Learning Questions by WILLIAM K. RAWLINS

11. Sighted, Blind, and In Between: Similarity and Difference in Ethnographic Inquiry by ELAINE BASS JENKS

PART FOUR: Personal Narrative as an Expression of Ethnography

12. Ethnography as the Excavation of Personal Narrative by ROBERT L. KRIZEK

13. Telling the Story of Birth by PAAIGE K. TURNER

14. Watching the Watchers: Making Sense of Emotional Constructions Behind Bars by SARAH J. TRACY

PART FIVE: Short Stories as Expressions of Ethnography

15. Hands by LISA M. TILLMANN-HEALY

16. He Touched, He Took by CHRISTINE E. KIESINGER

17. Happy to be Writing by PATRICIA GEIST-MARTIN

18. The Millennium Waltz: A Story in Three-Quarter Time by JULIE M. CRANDALL AND MARY HELEN BROWN

PART SIX: Novels as Expressions of Ethnography.

19. Geocommunication: A Paradigm of Place by CATHERINE BECKER AND FREDERICK C. COREY

PART SEVEN: Artifacts as Expressions of Ethnography

20. "Reality Ends Here": Graffiti as an Artifact by DEAN SCHEIBEL

21. Sense-Making Artifacts on the Margins of Cultural Spaces by AMARDO RODRIGUEZ

PART EIGHT: Genealogy and Postcolonial Identities as Expressions of Ethnography

22. Genealogy as an Ethnographic Enterprise by JASON E. COMBS

23. In Search of Naunny's Ethnicity: An (Auto)Ethnographic Study of a Family's Ethnic Identity by NICK TRUJILLO

24. Rhythms of Dis-Location: Family History, Ethnographic Spaces, and Reflexivity by DEVIKA CHAWLA

25. Starvin' Marvin's Got an Injun: A Visit to the Homeland by ROBIN PATRIC CLAIR

EPILOGUE: Future Directions by ROBIN PATRIC CLAIR

List of Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791486320

079148632X

9781417536184

1417536187

OCLC:

61367782