Ethnographic fieldwork: a beginner's guide

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Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations. Jan Blommaert and Do…

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Full title :Ethnographic fieldwork : a beginner's guide / Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie.

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Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Multilingual Matters
Place of Publication:Bristol
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (v, 92 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781847692962, 1847692966, 9781847694775, 1847694772, 1283147548, 9781283147545, 9786613147547, 6613147540
DOI:10.21832/9781847692962.
oclc:ocn701053895
LC Classification:GN346
Dewey Decimal:305.800723

Introduction -- Ethnography -- Ethnography as a paradigm -- Resources and dialectics -- Ethnography as counter-hegemony -- The ethnographic argument -- The sequence 1: prior to fieldwork -- The sequence 2: in the field -- Chaos -- The learning process -- Observation and fieldnotes -- Interviewing -- Collecting rubbish -- Conclusion -- The sequence 3: after fieldwork -- Your data -- Techniques and methods -- Analysing narratives -- Postscript.

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Cultural studies Ethnologie Ethnologie -- Recherche sur le terrain Ethnology -- Fieldwork Etnologi -- fältarbete Feldforschung linguistics Psychology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology Society sociolinguistics