Research Catalog

Title

Ethnography : principles in practice / Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson.

Author

Hammersley, Martyn.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Atkinson, Paul, 1947-

Description

xi, 275 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software, adn the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. What this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity in Chapter One, the authors go on to discuss and exemplify the main features of ethnographic work.

Subject

• Ethnology > Methodology
• Ethnology > Fieldwork
• Social sciences > Fieldwork
• 73.06 ethnography
• Ethnologie
• Feldforschung
• Methode
• Etnografie
• Veldwerk
• Anthropology > Methodology
• Anthropology > Fieldwork

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-266) and index.

Contents

What is ethnography? -- Research design : problems, cases, and samples -- Access -- Field relations -- Oral accounts and the role of interviewing -- Documents and other artefacts, real and virtual -- Recording and organizing data -- The process of analysis -- Writing ethnography -- Ethics -- Epilogue : a distinctive analytic mentality.

ISBN

• 0415396042
• 0415396050
• 0203944763
• 9780415396042
• 9780415396059
• 9780203944769

LCCN

2007005419

OCLC

• ocm82473639
• 82473639
• SCSB-1445228

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library