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In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. U...

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Main Author: Emerson, Robert M.
Other Authors: Fretz, Rachel I., Shaw, Linda L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Authorship.
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Ethnology > Research.
Academic writing.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Ethnology > methods.
Writing.
Ethnologie.
Feldforschung.
Methode.
Ethnologie > Recherche.
Ethnologie > Art d'écrire.
Enquêtes de terrain (ethnologie)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to second edition
  • Preface to first edition
  • Fieldnotes in ethnographic research
  • In the field : participating, observing, and jotting notes
  • Writing fieldnotes I : at the desk, creating scenes on a page
  • Writing fieldnotes II : multiple purposes and stylistic options
  • Pursuing members' meanings
  • Processing fieldnotes : coding and memoing
  • Writing an ethnography
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.