Description
Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world.
Informed by the authors′ fieldwork experience, the book covers the relation between theory, practice and writing, and demonstrates how methods work in the field, so preparing the first-time ethnographer for the loss of control and direction often experienced.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: GETTING READY
Conceptualizing the Subject
Preparing for Fieldwork
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING ETHNOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Participant Observation
Interviewing
Focus Groups
Filmic Approaches
PART THREE: PULLING IT TOGETHER
Analysing Field Materials
Writing Through Materials
Go Forth and Do...?
