1st Edition

Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience An Epistemological Critique

218 Pages

by Routledge

218 Pages

by Routledge

218 Pages

by Routledge

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Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho posits that writing is epistemologically prior to the researcher’s fieldwork experience in the production of ethnographic knowledge. This stance... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Pinning down experience

Chapter 2: Epistemological break

Chapter 3: Ethnographic data and analysis

Chapter 4: Engaging realism

Part II: Expounding experience

Chapter 5: The non-discursive and transcendence

Further Illustration: Unveiling the taken-for-grantedness of the spousal sexual world

Chapter 6: The limit of the discursive

Further Illustration: A rejoinder to Gubrium, Holstein and Weinberg