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Doing Fieldwork : Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond / by W. Fife.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fife, Wayne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Methodology.
- Sociology.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Anthropology.
- Sociological Methods.
- Ethnography.
- Regional Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociological Methods.
- Ethnography.
- Sociology.
- Regional Cultural Studies.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriented books, articles, or reports. The reader is taught how to combine historic and contemporary documents (e.g. archives, newspapers, government reports) with fieldwork methods (e.g. participant-observation, interviews, and self-reporting) to create ethnographic studies of disadvantaged populations. Anthropologists, Sociologists, Folklorists and Educational researchers will equally benefit from this critical approach to research.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction to ethnographic research methods
- Pt. A. Methods for macro-level research
- 2. Using historical sources for ethnographic research
- 3. Contemporary scholarly sources and a theoretical orientation
- 4. Newspapers and government documents : popular and official sources of information
- Pt. B. Methods for micro-level research
- 5. Participant-observation as a research method
- 6. Interviewing
- 7. Self-reporting
- Pt. C. Putting the ethnography together
- 8. Analysis
- 9. Creating and testing theory
- 10. Academic and practical writing.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611368722
- 9781281368720
- 1281368725
- 9781403980564
- 140398056X
- OCLC:
- 560459024
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