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Representation in Ethnography
First Edition
Edited by:
- John Van Maanen - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Other Titles in:
Ethnography
Ethnography
April 1995 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
For the past decade the function of the ethnographer's work has been challenged. Ethnographic texts are now deconstructed for their origins, their biases and their literary devices, and the boundaries of the genre have been expanded through experiments in presentation.
This volume explores many of the dimensions of the representational challenge to contemporary ethnography. The contributors, well-known scholars in their field, cover such topics as: fieldnotes; the role of description, narrative, humour and acknowledgements; the relationship between ethnography and other forms of writing; and alternative means of presenting ethnographic work.
John Van Maanen
An End to Innocence
Jean E Jackson
'Déjà Entendu'
Harry F Wolcott
Making a Study 'More Ethnographic'
Michael Agar
Literary Journalism as Ethnography
Eyal Ben-Ari
On Acknowledgements in Ethnographies
Gary Alan Fine and Daniel D Martin
Humor in Ethnographic Writing
Laurel Richardson
Narrative and Sociology
Marianne A Paget
Performing the Text
Peter K Manning
The Challenges of Postmodernism