
Writing Ethnographically
Paul Atkinson(Author)
SAGE Publications Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-5264-6342-5 (ISBN)
Description
This original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world's leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master.
Informed throughout by extracts from Paul's own writing, this book explores and examines a broad range of types and genres of ethnographic writing, from fieldnotes and 'confessions', to conventional 'realist' writing and more. Whilst highlighting the possibilities and implications of ethnographic text, this valuable resource will help those conducting ethnographic research select and adopt the most appropriate approach for their study.
Informed throughout by extracts from Paul's own writing, this book explores and examines a broad range of types and genres of ethnographic writing, from fieldnotes and 'confessions', to conventional 'realist' writing and more. Whilst highlighting the possibilities and implications of ethnographic text, this valuable resource will help those conducting ethnographic research select and adopt the most appropriate approach for their study.
Reviews / Votes
By one of the most distinguished commentators, this is a learned and beautifully enlivening account of the critical place of textual form in ethnography . Informed by a disciplined and critical sociological imagination and unconstrained by a central creed, this book will liberate ethnographic researchers to write their worlds. -- Endorsement All social scientists should read this wise, generous, and radical book which resets and restores our understanding of ethnographic writing, its craft, and its rationale. -- EndorsementMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5264-6342-5 (9781526463425)
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Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales.
Content
Introduction: Writing Matters
Textual Reflexivity
Notes and Margins
Reflections and Confessions
Ethnographic Presence
Stories and Parables
Modernisms
Writing the Self
Fictions and Performances
Reflexivity Revisited
Textual Reflexivity
Notes and Margins
Reflections and Confessions
Ethnographic Presence
Stories and Parables
Modernisms
Writing the Self
Fictions and Performances
Reflexivity Revisited