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The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity

By Amanda Coffey

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1999
ISBN
0761952667, 9780761952664
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4017794 bytes)
Pages
192\191
Time added
2016-10-07 02:57:23
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Description

What are the relationships between the self and fieldwork? How do personal, emotional and identity issues impact upon working in the field? This book argues that ethnographers, and others involved in fieldwork, should be aware of how fieldwork research and ethnographic writing construct, reproduce and implicate selves, relationships and personal identities. All too often research methods texts remain relatively silent about the ways in which fieldwork affects us and we affect the field. The book attempts to synthesize accounts of the personal experience of ethnography. In doing so, the author makes sense of the process of fieldwork research as a set of practical, intellectual and emotional accomplishments. The book is

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