How to Read Ethnography

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-32867-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 407 g

How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to other areas of study. Above all it enables students to read ethnographies anthropologically and to develop an anthropological imagination of their own. Combining lucid explanations with selections from key texts, this excellent guide is ideal reading for those new to the subject or in need of a refresher course.

Includes excerpts from key ethnographies
Offers balanced and progressive reader activities and exercises
Provides reading exercises, a glossary and full chapter summaries
Teaches an independent approach to the study of anthropology

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blasco, Paloma Gay Y

Wardle, Huon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; A note on the use of words in bold; Introduction: the concerns and distinctiveness of ethnography; Chapter 1: Comparison: the ethnographic outlook; Chapter 2: People in context; Chapter 3: Relationships and meanings; Chapter 4: Narrating the immediate; Chapter 5: Ethnography as argument; Chapter 6: The setting and the audience; Chapter 7: Positioning the author; Chapter 8: Big conversations and patterns of commitment; Conclusion; Glossary; References

Über Autor(innen)

Paloma Gay y Blasco and Huon Wardle are Lecturers in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Queens University, Belfast, UK