"This is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods, focusing on participant observation, interviewing, focus groups and video/photographic work. It covers the relationship between theory, practice and writing and demonstrates how methods work in the field."@en
"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. In five short chapters it presents a systematic overview of: - first principles - the role of the detached researcher, the idea of a pure culture - preparing for fieldwork - initiating access, the relation of knowledge to ethics - constructing ethnographic information - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, filmic approache."@en

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