Ethnography
| dc.contributor.author | Harrison, Anthony Kwame | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-09T22:21:05Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-09T22:21:05Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05-01 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Embracing the trope of ethnography as narrative, this chapter uses the mythic story of Bronislaw Malinowski's early career and fieldwork as a vehicle through which to explore key aspects of ethnography's history and development into a distinct form of qualitative research. The reputed "founding father" of the ethnographic approach, Malinowski was a brilliant social scientist, dynamic writer, conceited colonialist, and, above all else, pathetically human. Through a series of intervallic steps -- in and out of Malinowski's path from Poland to the "Cambridge School" and eventually to the western Pacific -- I trace the legacy of ethnography to its current position as a critical, historically informed, and unfailingly evolving research endeavor. As a research methodology that has continually reflected on and revised its practices and modes of presentation, ethnography is boundless. Yet minus its political, ethical, and historical moorings, I argue, the complexities of twenty-first-century society render its future uncertain. | en |
| dc.description.notes | < EDITORS: Patricia Leavy >< REFEREED: No >< USER_REFERENCE_CREATOR: Yes >< ACC_END: 2012-10-31 >< DTx_ACC: 10/2012 >< PUB_END: 2014-05-31 >< DTx_PUB: 05/2014 > | en |
| dc.description.version | Published version | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74037 | en |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | anthropology | en |
| dc.subject | colonialism | en |
| dc.subject | epistemology | en |
| dc.subject | intersubjectivity | en |
| dc.subject | writing culture | en |
| dc.subject | Bronislaw Malinowski | en |
| dc.subject | methodology | en |
| dc.title | Ethnography | en |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/All T&R Faculty | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/CLAHS T&R Faculty | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/Sociology | en |