Ethnographic fieldwork: a beginner's guide

Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about somethin...

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Main Authors: Blommaert, Jan 1961-2021 (Author), Jie, Dong (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol Multilingual Matters [2010]
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Summary:Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don’t know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations. Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie draw on their own experiences as fieldworkers in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an easily accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle before, during and after fieldwork
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (92 Seiten)
ISBN:9781847692962
DOI:10.21832/9781847692962

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