基本説明
Embraces the idea that alternative genres may be used to express culture, and offers an eclectic mix of short stories, novels, and poetry, as well as traditional scholarly reports.
Full Description
A different approach to contemporary ethnography, embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express cultural experience.
Expressions of Ethnography embraces the idea that alternative genres may be used to express culture. Using examples of a wide variety of cultural phenomena, contemporary ways to practice ethnography, and novel forms of expressing the cultural experience, the book offers an eclectic mix of short stories, novels, and poetry, as well as traditional scholarly reports of poignant, provocative, and powerful cultural phenomena. Included are accounts of recovery following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, life as a prison guard, surviving child abuse and coping via an eating disorder, dealing with disabilities, living the gay life, birthing babies, as well as searching for birth mothers. Special attention is given to dialogue, from dialogue with families and friends to American ethnographers interviewing Thai managers.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Introduction
Part One: An Overview of Ethnography
1. The Changing Story of Ethnography
Robin Patric Clair
Part Two: Ethnographic Perspectives
2. Living and Writing Feminist Ethnographies: Threads in a Quilt Stitched From the Heart
Pamela Chapman Sanger
3. Musings on Critical Ethnography, Meanings, and Symbolic Violence
Jim Thomas
4. What is Interpretive Ethnography? An Eclectic's Tale
H. L. Goodall Jr.
5. Postmodernism, Ethnography, and Communication Studies: Comments and a Case
Bryan C. Taylor
6. An Ethics for Post-Colonial Ethnography
Maria Cristina González
7. The Beauty and Logic of Aesthetic Ethnography
Robin Patric Clair
Part Three: Dialogue and Interview as Expressions of Ethnography
8. Ethnographic Interviewing as Contextualized Conversation
Christina W. Stage and Marifran Mattson
9. Contextualized Conversation: Interviewing Exemplars
Marifran Mattson and Christina W. Stage
10. Hearing Voices/Learning Questions
William K. Rawlins
11. Sighted, Blind, and In Between: Similarity and Difference in Ethnographic Inquiry
Elaine Bass Jenks
Part Four: Personal Narratives as Expressions of Ethnography
12. Ethnography as the Excavation of Personal Narrative
Robert L. Krizek
13. Telling the Story of Birth
Paaige K. Turner
14. Watching the Watchers: Making Sense of Emotional Constructions Behind Bars
Sarah J. Tracy
Part Five: Short Stories as Expressions of Ethnography
15. Hands
Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy
16. He Touched, He Took
Christine E. Kiesinger
17. Happy to Be Writing
Patricia Geist-Martin
18. The Millennium Waltz: A Story in Three-Quarter Time
Julie M. Crandall and Mary Helen Brown
Part Six: Novels as Expressions of Ethnography
19. Geocommunication: A Paradigm of Place
Catherine Becker and Frederick C. Corey
Part Seven: Artifacts as Expressions of Ethnography
20. "Reality Ends Here": Graffiti as an Artifact
Dean Scheibel
21. Sense-Making Artifacts on the Margins of Cultural Spaces
Amardo Rodriguez
Part Eight: Genealogy and Postcolonial Identities as Expressions of Ethnography
22. Genealogy as an Ethnographic Enterprise
Jason E. Combs
23. In Search of Naunny's Ethnicity: An (Auto)Ethnographic Study of a Family's Ethnic Identity
Nick Trujillo
24. Rhythms of Dis-Location: Family History, Ethnographic Spaces, and Reflexivity
Devika Chawla
25. Starvin' Marvin's Got an Injun: A Visit to the Homeland
Robin Patric Clair
Epilogue: Future Directions
List of Contributors
Index
