Ethnography

Ethnography: The Basics introduces a broad and beginner audience to ethnography, as a research methodology with diverse applications. By using everyday language, and developing a warm and inclusive tone, the book provides an accessible entry point to the topic.

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Susan Wardell is an academic and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology programme at the University of Otago, with a shared background in communication studies. Her own research focuses on emotion and affect, digital sociality, health, and mental health, with recent work covering topics such as online medical crowdfunding and ecological distress. She is interested in public communication and in creative ethnography, writing and publishing in several literary genres, while also dabbling in visual and performance arts. Susan is P keh (New Zealand European) and lives in tepoti Dunedin.

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Ethnography: The Basics introduces a broad and beginner audience to ethnography, as a research methodology with diverse applications. By using everyday language, and developing a warm and inclusive tone, the book provides an accessible entry point to the topic.

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Acknowledgements

Glossary

CHAPTER ONE: WHY ETHNOGRAPHY?

CHAPTER TWO: DESIGNING THE RESEARCH, DEFINING THE FIELD

CHAPTER THREE: NAVIGATING RESEARCH RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER FOUR: 'BEING THERE' AS A PARTICIPANT-OBSERVER

CHAPTER FIVE: RECORDING, GATHERING, AND PRODUCING ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA

CHAPTER SIX: ETHNOGRAPHIC QUESTIONING, ETHNOGRAPHIC LISTENING

CHAPTER SEVEN: MAKING SENSE OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA

CHAPTER EIGHT: COMMUNICATING ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATING ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXTS

EPILOGUE: A LOVE LETTER TO ETHNOGRAPHY

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