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Doing ethnographies /

Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world. Informed by the authors' fieldwork experi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crang, Mike
Other Authors: Cook, Ian
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2007.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006929863-t.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006929863-d.html
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Summary:Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world. Informed by the authors' fieldwork experience, the book covers the relation between theory, practice and writing, and demonstrates how methods work in the field, so preparing the first-time ethnographer for the loss of control and direction often experienced.
Item Description:Author names reversed in the previous ed.
Physical Description:x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239) and index.
ISBN:9780761944454
9780761944461 (pbk.)