2nd Edition

Reflexive Ethnography A Guide to Researching Selves and Others

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic authority. Davies examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural... Read more
Part 1 Preparations; Chapter 1 Reflexivity and ethnographic research; Chapter 2 Selecting topics and methods; Chapter 3 Ethics and politics; Part 2 In the field; Chapter 4 Observing, participating; Chapter 5 Interviewing; Chapter 6 Using visual methods; Chapter 7 Internet ethnography; Chapter 8 Structuring research; Chapter 9 Expanding the ethnographic present; Chapter 10 Researching selves; Part 3 Mediations; Chapter 11 Formalizing analysis; Chapter 12 Writing up, concluding;

Biography

Charlotte Aull Davies is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is author of Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (1989) and co-editor of Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives (2003).