| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
xxvi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420) and index. |
| Contents |
Stepping in and stepping out: understanding cultures -- Writing self, writing cultures: understanding fieldwriting -- Reading self, reading cultures: understanding texts -- Researching place: the spatial gaze -- Researching people: the collaborative listener -- Researching language: the cultural translator -- Researching archives: locating culture -- Fieldwriting: from down draft to up draft. |
| Summary |
FieldWorking, Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater's acclaimed textbook, is an engaging guide to the fundamentals of ethnographic study, complete with practical help for research and writing. Emphasizing civic responsibility and community engagement, FieldWorking incorporates examples by professionals writers such as Mark Singer, Pico Iyer, Joan Didion, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as student research projects on topics as diverse as a local truck stop, dinner clubs, blogging, and a horse sales barn, to help students identify and define their own subcultures and communities. Because students are connected to their research, FieldWorking's ethnographic approach makes projects fascinating and empowering for all students as they learn to observe, listen, interpret, analyze, and write about the people and artifacts around them. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork. |
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Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Ethnology -- Authorship. |
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Communication in ethnology.
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Communication in ethnology. |
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Academic writing.
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Academic writing. |
| Added Author |
Chiseri-Strater, Elizabeth.
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| Added Title |
Field working |
| ISBN |
9780312622756 (student edition ; alkaline paper) |
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0312622759 |
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9780312644062 (complimentary copy ; alkaline paper) |
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031264406X (complimentary copy ; alkaline paper) |
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