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9780803971622 Academic Inspection Copy

Representation in Ethnography

  • ISBN-13: 9780803971622
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • Edited by John Van Maanen
  • Price: AUD $533.00
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  • Local release date: 12/04/2005
  • Format: Hardback (215.00mm X 139.00mm) 280 pages Weight: 510g
  • Categories: Physical anthropology [JHMP]
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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.
Van Maanen holds a BA in political science from California State University, Long Beach, as well as an MS in social administration and a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Irvine.
An End to Innocence - John Van Maanen The Ethnography of Ethnography 'Deja Entendu' - Jean E Jackson The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes Making a Study 'More Ethnographic' - Harry F Wolcott Literary Journalism as Ethnography - Michael Agar Exploring the Excluded Middle On Acknowledgements in Ethnographies - Eyal Ben-Ari Humor in Ethnographic Writing - Gary Alan Fine and Daniel D Martin Sarcasm, Satire, and Irony in Erving Goffman's Asylums Narrative and Sociology - Laurel Richardson Performing the Text - Marianne A Paget The Challenges of Postmodernism - Peter K Manning
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