Ethnographic fieldwork: a beginner's guide

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This text describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about to begin with, facilitated by theoretical and methodological instruments. The book provides an easy to read introduction to quite complex ideas about knowledge.

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

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Publication Date:©2010

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

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Description:v, 92 pages : : illustrations, chart ; : 21 cm

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ISBN:9781847692955, 1847692958, 9781847692948, 184769294X, 9781847692962, 1847692966
oclc:ocn633143874
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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