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The ethnographic interview / James P. Spradley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spradley, James P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interviewing in ethnology.
- Ethnology--Methodology.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 247 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The Ethnographic Interview is a practical, self-teaching handbook that guides readers step-by-step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The text also shows how to analyze collected data and how to write an ethnography. Appendices include research questions and writing tasks." --back cover.
- Contents:
- Ethnography and culture
- Language and field work
- Informants
- Locating an informant
- Interviewing an informant
- Making an ethnographic record
- Asking descriptive questions
- Analyzing ethnographic interviews
- Making a domain analysis
- Asking structural questions
- Making a taxonomic analysis
- Asking contrast questions
- Making a componential analysis
- Discovering cultural themes
- Writing an ethnography
- A taxonomy of ethnographic questions
- Developmental research sequence writing tasks
- The developmental research sequence method.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1478632070
- 9781478632078
- OCLC:
- 942396921
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