Full Description
This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommaert traces the influence of his reading of classic works about ethnography on his thinking, and discusses a range of authors who have influenced the development of a theoretical system of ethnography, or whose work might be productively used to develop it further. Authors examined include Hymes, Scollon, Kress, Bourdieu, Bakhtin and Lefebvre. This book will be required reading for students and scholars involved in ethnographic research, or those interested in the theory of ethnography.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Ethnography as Couter-Hegemony: Remarks on Epistemology and Method
Chapter 2: Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009)
Chapter 3: Ethnography and Democracy: Hymes' Political Theory of Language
Chapter 4: Ethnopoetics as Functional Reconstruction: Dell Hymes' Narrative View of the World
Chapter 5: Grassroots Historiography and the Problem of Voice: Tshibumba's Histoire Du Zaïre
Chapter 6: Historical Bodies and Historical Space
Chapter 7: Semiotic and Spatial Scope: Towards a Materialist Semiotics
Chapter 8: Pierre Bourdieu and Language in Society
Chapter 9: Combining Surveys and Ethnographies in the Study of Rapid Social Change
Chapter 10: Data Sharing As Entextualization Practice
Chapter 11: Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society
Chapter 12: Marxism and Urban Culture
Chapter 13: On Scope and Depth in Linguistic Ethnography: A Commentary
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