Representing Ethnography
Reading, Writing and Rhetoric in Qualitative Research
Number Of Volumes: 4
Paul Atkinson
- Cardiff University, UK
Sara Delamont
- Cardiff University, UK
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9781412945981
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Qualitative research, especially ethnography, has seen a paradigm shift since 1968. This so-called 'Third Moment' was concerned with the critical issue of the textual representation of ethnographic work. There was a call for a turn towards texts that mirrored the messiness of social life, that were faithful to the many voices of social worlds, in which the artfulness of ethnographic writing was manifest and in which the ethnographer was visibly present in the text.
This major work, Ethnographic Discourse, brings together into one set all the important material on this 'rhetorical turn' in qualitative research. Many of the critiques of the rhetorical turn are particularly hard to obtain and have never been gathered together in an accessible way.
Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of this type of discourse.
Volume II covers the reading of qualitative research in a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and history, and gives classic examples of the ways in which text can be read.
Volume III examines the rhetorical turn in terms of analysis and voice.
Volume IV showcases how ethnographic realities are represented to give readers a good coverage of all the possibilities.
Contents
Volume 1: Contexts and Controversies
- Introduction
- Functionalists write too
- Stories and Sociology
- Looking both ways
- Styles of reporting qualitative field research
- Slide show: Evans-Pritchard's African Transparencies
- The emergence of Self-consciousness in Ethnography
- On the writing of ethnography
- The literary rhetoric of science: comedy and pathos in drinking driver research
- The analogical tradition and the emergence of dialogical Anthropology
- What written knowledge does
- Dialectical Irony
- On ethnographic Surrealism
- Writing ethnography
- On ethnographic authority
- Putting facts together
- From rapport to under erasure
- The Rhetoric of ethnographic holism
- Ethnography without tears
- Rhetoric and the authority of ethnography
- The Postmodern turn in anthropology
- Make me reflexive - but not yet: strategies for managing essential reflexivity in ethnographic discourse
Volume 2: Reading Qualitative Research
- The rhetoric of economics
- Textual Persuasion
- Irony: a methodological theory
- Confronting ethnography's crisis of representation
- Four ways to improve the craft of fieldwork
- Ethnographies as texts
- The 'crisis' in representation
- Beyond Malinowski and after Writing Culture
- The crisis in representation: a brief history
- The sky is not falling
- Anthropology as a kind of writing
- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski
- Goffman's poetics
- Sarcasm, satire and irony as voices in Goffman's Asylums
- Out of context
Volume 3: Analysis and Voice in Qualitative Research
- Qualitative data analysis
- Deja entendu: The liminal qualities of anthropological fieldnotes
- On writing field notes
- Representing discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription
- Qualitative Research and translation dilemmas
- Abduction as the type of inference
- Fear of Offending
- The presentation of everyday life: some textual strategies for 'adequate ethnography'
- 'Dear Researcher'
- Gender, the personal and the voice of scholarship
- Problems of editing 'first-person' sociology
- A taste for the other
- 51. Moore, S.F.
- Explaining the present: Theoretical dilemmas in processional ethnography
- The collective story: postmodernism and the writing of sociology
- Falling through the 'savage slot'
- Troubles in the field
- Storytelling and the Interpretation of Meaning in Qualitative Research
- Studying the self
- Beyond "subjectivity"
- Writing culture, writing feminism
- Defining feminist ethnography
Volume 4: Writing and Representation
- What's wrong with ethnography?
- Doing ethnography, writing ethnography
- Autonomy and credibility: Voice as method
- The theater of ethnography
- Reading and Writing Performance
- The sea monster: An ethnographic drama
- Fiction and ethnography
- Balancing the Berimbau
- The fatal flaw
- Finding the Limits
- Analytic Autoethnography
- Analysing analytic autoethnography
- Show me a sign
- A walk in the olive grove
- The anthropologists's son
- On auto/biography in sociology
- Plenty confidence in myself: The initiation of a white woman scholar into Haitian vodou
- Three women, one struggle: Anthropology, performance and pedagogy
- Performing the text
- 'I yam what I am'
- Text bites and the R. word
- Deconstructing dissemination
- Storying Schools
- Dissolution and reconstitution of self
- The validity of angels
- The Collective Story
- Survival in the field: Implications of personal experiences in fieldwork
- Sociological Introspection and emotional experience
Description
Qualitative research, especially ethnography, has seen a paradigm shift since 1968. This so-called 'Third Moment' was concerned with the critical issue of the textual representation of ethnographic work. There was a call for a turn towards texts that mirrored the messiness of social life, that were faithful to the many voices of social worlds, in which the artfulness of ethnographic writing was manifest and in which the ethnographer was visibly present in the text.
This major work, Ethnographic Discourse, brings together into one set all the important material on this 'rhetorical turn' in qualitative research. Many of the critiques of the rhetorical turn are particularly hard to obtain and have never been gathered together in an accessible way.
Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of this type of discourse.
Volume II covers the reading of qualitative research in a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and history, and gives classic examples of the ways in which text can be read.
Volume III examines the rhetorical turn in terms of analysis and voice.
Volume IV showcases how ethnographic realities are represented to give readers a good coverage of all the possibilities.
Contents
Volume 1: Contexts and Controversies
- Introduction
- Functionalists write too
- Stories and Sociology
- Looking both ways
- Styles of reporting qualitative field research
- Slide show: Evans-Pritchard's African Transparencies
- The emergence of Self-consciousness in Ethnography
- On the writing of ethnography
- The literary rhetoric of science: comedy and pathos in drinking driver research
- The analogical tradition and the emergence of dialogical Anthropology
- What written knowledge does
- Dialectical Irony
- On ethnographic Surrealism
- Writing ethnography
- On ethnographic authority
- Putting facts together
- From rapport to under erasure
- The Rhetoric of ethnographic holism
- Ethnography without tears
- Rhetoric and the authority of ethnography
- The Postmodern turn in anthropology
- Make me reflexive - but not yet: strategies for managing essential reflexivity in ethnographic discourse
Volume 2: Reading Qualitative Research
- The rhetoric of economics
- Textual Persuasion
- Irony: a methodological theory
- Confronting ethnography's crisis of representation
- Four ways to improve the craft of fieldwork
- Ethnographies as texts
- The 'crisis' in representation
- Beyond Malinowski and after Writing Culture
- The crisis in representation: a brief history
- The sky is not falling
- Anthropology as a kind of writing
- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski
- Goffman's poetics
- Sarcasm, satire and irony as voices in Goffman's Asylums
- Out of context
Volume 3: Analysis and Voice in Qualitative Research
- Qualitative data analysis
- Deja entendu: The liminal qualities of anthropological fieldnotes
- On writing field notes
- Representing discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription
- Qualitative Research and translation dilemmas
- Abduction as the type of inference
- Fear of Offending
- The presentation of everyday life: some textual strategies for 'adequate ethnography'
- 'Dear Researcher'
- Gender, the personal and the voice of scholarship
- Problems of editing 'first-person' sociology
- A taste for the other
- 51. Moore, S.F.
- Explaining the present: Theoretical dilemmas in processional ethnography
- The collective story: postmodernism and the writing of sociology
- Falling through the 'savage slot'
- Troubles in the field
- Storytelling and the Interpretation of Meaning in Qualitative Research
- Studying the self
- Beyond "subjectivity"
- Writing culture, writing feminism
- Defining feminist ethnography
Volume 4: Writing and Representation
- What's wrong with ethnography?
- Doing ethnography, writing ethnography
- Autonomy and credibility: Voice as method
- The theater of ethnography
- Reading and Writing Performance
- The sea monster: An ethnographic drama
- Fiction and ethnography
- Balancing the Berimbau
- The fatal flaw
- Finding the Limits
- Analytic Autoethnography
- Analysing analytic autoethnography
- Show me a sign
- A walk in the olive grove
- The anthropologists's son
- On auto/biography in sociology
- Plenty confidence in myself: The initiation of a white woman scholar into Haitian vodou
- Three women, one struggle: Anthropology, performance and pedagogy
- Performing the text
- 'I yam what I am'
- Text bites and the R. word
- Deconstructing dissemination
- Storying Schools
- Dissolution and reconstitution of self
- The validity of angels
- The Collective Story
- Survival in the field: Implications of personal experiences in fieldwork
- Sociological Introspection and emotional experience
Representing Ethnography
Reading, Writing and Rhetoric in Qualitative Research
September 2008 | 1824 pages | Sage UK
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
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| Hardcover | 31/03/2026 | 9781412945981 | $1307.00 |
Qualitative research, especially ethnography, has seen a paradigm shift since 1968. This so-called 'Third Moment' was concerned with the critical issue of the textual representation of ethnographic work. There was a call for a turn towards texts that mirrored the messiness of social life, that were faithful to the many voices of social worlds, in which the artfulness of ethnographic writing was manifest and in which the ethnographer was visibly present in the text.
This major work, Ethnographic Discourse, brings together into one set all the important material on this 'rhetorical turn' in qualitative research. Many of the critiques of the rhetorical turn are particularly hard to obtain and have never been gathered together in an accessible way.
Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of this type of discourse.
Volume II covers the reading of qualitative research in a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and history, and gives classic examples of the ways in which text can be read.
Volume III examines the rhetorical turn in terms of analysis and voice.
Volume IV showcases how ethnographic realities are represented to give readers a good coverage of all the possibilities.
Table Of Contents:
- Volume 1: Contexts and Controversies
- Introduction
- Functionalists write too
- Stories and Sociology
- Looking both ways
- Styles of reporting qualitative field research
- Slide show: Evans-Pritchard's African Transparencies
- The emergence of Self-consciousness in Ethnography
- On the writing of ethnography
- The literary rhetoric of science: comedy and pathos in drinking driver research
- The analogical tradition and the emergence of dialogical Anthropology
- What written knowledge does
- Dialectical Irony
- On ethnographic Surrealism
- Writing ethnography
- On ethnographic authority
- Putting facts together
- From rapport to under erasure
- The Rhetoric of ethnographic holism
- Ethnography without tears
- Rhetoric and the authority of ethnography
- The Postmodern turn in anthropology
- Make me reflexive - but not yet: strategies for managing essential reflexivity in ethnographic discourse
- Volume 2: Reading Qualitative Research
- The rhetoric of economics
- Textual Persuasion
- Irony: a methodological theory
- Confronting ethnography's crisis of representation
- Four ways to improve the craft of fieldwork
- Ethnographies as texts
- The 'crisis' in representation
- Beyond Malinowski and after Writing Culture
- The crisis in representation: a brief history
- The sky is not falling
- Anthropology as a kind of writing
- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski
- Goffman's poetics
- Sarcasm, satire and irony as voices in Goffman's Asylums
- Out of context
- Volume 3: Analysis and Voice in Qualitative Research
- Qualitative data analysis
- Deja entendu: The liminal qualities of anthropological fieldnotes
- On writing field notes
- Representing discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription
- Qualitative Research and translation dilemmas
- Abduction as the type of inference
- Fear of Offending
- The presentation of everyday life: some textual strategies for 'adequate ethnography'
- 'Dear Researcher'
- Gender, the personal and the voice of scholarship
- Problems of editing 'first-person' sociology
- A taste for the other
- 51. Moore, S.F.
- Explaining the present: Theoretical dilemmas in processional ethnography
- The collective story: postmodernism and the writing of sociology
- Falling through the 'savage slot'
- Troubles in the field
- Storytelling and the Interpretation of Meaning in Qualitative Research
- Studying the self
- Beyond "subjectivity"
- Writing culture, writing feminism
- Defining feminist ethnography
- Volume 4: Writing and Representation
- What's wrong with ethnography?
- Doing ethnography, writing ethnography
- Autonomy and credibility: Voice as method
- The theater of ethnography
- Reading and Writing Performance
- The sea monster: An ethnographic drama
- Fiction and ethnography
- Balancing the Berimbau
- The fatal flaw
- Finding the Limits
- Analytic Autoethnography
- Analysing analytic autoethnography
- Show me a sign
- A walk in the olive grove
- The anthropologists's son
- On auto/biography in sociology
- Plenty confidence in myself: The initiation of a white woman scholar into Haitian vodou
- Three women, one struggle: Anthropology, performance and pedagogy
- Performing the text
- 'I yam what I am'
- Text bites and the R. word
- Deconstructing dissemination
- Storying Schools
- Dissolution and reconstitution of self
- The validity of angels
- The Collective Story
- Survival in the field: Implications of personal experiences in fieldwork
- Sociological Introspection and emotional experience