ISBN:
9780803972995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Interpretive Ethnography : Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Ethnology ; Philosophy
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Ethnology ; Authorship
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Ethnology ; Methodology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
As the world's culture has become both postmodern and multinational, so too must ethnography. In this volume, Norman K Denzin examines the changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. The author ponders the prospects, problems, and forms of ethnographic interpretive writing in the twenty-first century. He argues cogently and persuasively that postmodern ethnography is the moral discourse of the contemporary world, and that ethnographers can and should explore new types of experimental texts, performance-based texts, literary journalism and narra
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part I - Reading the Crisis; Chapter 1 - Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us; Chapter 2 - Visual Truth and the Ethnographic Project; Part II - Experiential Texts; Chapter 3 - Standpoint Epistemologies; Chapter 4 - Performance Texts; Chapter 5 - The New Journalism; Chapter 6 - The Private Eye; Chapter 7 - Ethnographic Poetics and Narratives of the Self; Part III - Whose Truth?; Chapter 8 - Reading Narrative; Chapter 9 - The Sixth Moment; References; Index; About the Author;
Note:
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