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Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
0415151902, 9780415151900, 0203278143, 9780203278147, 9780203069370
LCC
GN345 .D37 1999
Open Library ID
OL368615M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
945 kB (967306 bytes)
Series
The ASA Research Methods
Pages
266\266
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology. However, contemporary debate on themes such as modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity and self/other put the value of fieldwork into question. Reflexive Ethnography provides a practical and comprehensive guide to ethnographic research methods which fully engages with these significant issues. Reflexive Ethnography tackles all the relevant research questions, including chapters on selection of topics and methods, data collection, analysis, and ethics and politics. Charlotte Aull Davies stresses the positive contributions of reflexivity to methodology. Reflexive ethnography can generate a unique form of material that is neither accessible directly through native texts nor simply a reflection of the individual anthropologist's psyche. Instead ethnographic practice can fully incorporate reflexivity without abandoning its claims to develop valid knowledge of social reality.

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