Doing ethnography today : theories, methods, exercises / Elizabeth Campbell and Luke Eric Lassiter.

Includes index.

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Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Ethnography Ethnography is as Personal as it Gets Ethnography is Collaborative Ethnography is Hermeneutic Ethnography is Creative and Constitutive Ethnography Grapples with the Idea of Culture, however Deeply Compromised Ethnography is Mostly Art Exercise - Taking Stock: Exploring your Limits and Possibilities Suggested Readings Suggested Websites Notes 2. Fields of Collaboration The Field Today On the Actual Complexities of Collaboration Exercise - Engaging Collaborations and Creating Research Questions Suggested Readings Suggested Websites Notes 3. Emergent Design Exercise - Intentional Reciprocity Uncertainty and the Collaborative Process Ethics and Ethical Commitments Exercise - Developing Project Codes of Ethics Recognition or Anonymity? Exercise - Ethics, IRBs, and Other Subjects Issues of Authority: Ethnographer as Facilitator, Research Participant as Counterpart Exercise - Revisiting Project Limits and Possibilities Suggested Readings Suggested Websites Notes   4. Engagement: Participant Observation and Observant Participation Exercise - One Scene, Many Positions Participation Interlude: Equipment Check From Participant-Observation to Observant Participation Fieldnotes: From Definitions, Meanings, and Practices to Storied Observations Exercise - Developing Your Own (Fieldnotes) Style On Fieldnote Forms Exercise - Writing With By Way of Conclusion. Suggested Readings Suggested Websites 5. Interviews and Conversations Living with Interviews Exercise - Issues for Interviews The Changing Nature of Interviews Exercise - Interviews as Conversations Interviews (and Conversations) in Ethnographic Research Exercise - Talking about Transcripts Suggested Readings Suggested Websites Notes 6. Inscriptions: On Writing Ethnography Exercise - Making Sense of Materials "What is Ethnography" Redux: On the Emergence of Contemporary Ethnographic Forms Exercise - Writing Ethnography Toward Collaborative Writing and Transformation Exercise - Collaborative Writing Suggested Readings Suggested Websites Notes .