Representation in Ethnography
by Van Maanen, JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-04-01
Publisher(s): Sage Pubns
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| An End to Innocence | |
| The Ethnography of Ethnography 'Déjà Entendu' | |
| The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes Making a Study 'More Ethnographic' | |
| Literary Journalism as Ethnography | |
| Exploring the Excluded Middle On Acknowledgements in Ethnographies | |
| Humor in Ethnographic Writing | |
| Sarcasm, Satire, and Irony in Erving Goffman's Asylums Narrative and Sociology | |
| Performing the Text | |
| The Challenges of Postmodernism | |
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