Being ethnographic : a guide to the theory and practice of ethnography created by Raymond Madden

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section One: Key Concepts and Theoretical FramesChapter 1: 'Definitions', methods and applications Characterising ethnography Reflexivity Intersubjectivity Methods Practical and conceptual origins Applications and ethicsChapter 2: Ethnographic fields: home and away Making place: what is an ethnographic field? Some favourite fields Ethnography at home Multisited and un-sited ethnographySection Two: Doing EthnographyChapter 3: Talking to people: negotiations, conversations and interviews Negotiation Conversation InterviewingChapter 4: Being with people: participation Immersion ethnography Step-in-step-out ethnography Embodiment and the ethnographer The ethical participantChapter 5: Looking at people: observations and images The ethnographic gaze The systematic eye Visual ethnography Seeing is believingSection Three: InscriptionChapter 6: Description: writing 'down' fieldnotes Writing 'down' The systematic hand What goes into notebooks Examples of fieldnotesChapter 7: Analysis to interpretation: writing 'out' data Organising primary data Organising secondary data Writing 'out' dataChapter 8: Interpretation to story: writing 'up' ethnography The storied reality Author and audience Writing as the continuation of interpretation Structure in an ethnographic story Style in ethnographic writingSection Four: Expanding EthnographyChapter 9: Conclusion: ethnographic horizons Review Cyber Ethnography Non-human ethnography