Writing Ethnography (Second Edition) - Jessica Smartt Gullion

Writing Ethnography (Second Edition)

Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2021 | 2nd New edition
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50807-1 (ISBN)
28,89 inkl. MwSt
A concise, engaging guide to writing qualitative research.
Ethnographers spend a tremendous amount of time in the field, collecting all sorts of empirical material—but how do they turn their work into books or articles that people actually want to read? This concise, engaging guide will help academic writers at all levels to write better. Many
ethnography textbooks focus more on the ‘ethno’ portion of our craft, and less on developing our ‘graph’ skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process.

Jessica Smartt Gullion, PhD (2002), Texas Woman’s University, is the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences at that university. She has written extensively on ethnography, including Diffractive Ethnography (Routledge, 2018), and the forthcoming Doing Ethnography (Guilford).

Acknowledgments

List of Figures
About the Author



Introduction

 1 Changes from the First Edition



1 On Ethnography

 1 A (Very) Brief History of Ethnography

 2 Why Ethnography?

 3 Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Writing

 4 Fieldnotes



2 On Storytelling

 1 Types of Tales

 2 Creative Nonfijiction in Ethnography

 3 What Makes a Story Great?

 4 Story Arcs

 5 Vignettes

 6 Evocative Storytelling

 7 Vulnerability in Writing

 8 Reflexivity and Difffraction



3 On Technical Considerations

 1 Writing Rituals

 2 Academic Fanfijiction

 3 The Art of the Sentence

 4 First, Second, or Third Person

 5 Active/Passive

 6 The Trouble with Adverbs

 7 Audience

 8 Show, Don’t Tell

 9 Voice

 10 Writing the Voices of Our Participants

 11 Characters

 12 Conversations

 13 Metaphorically Speaking

 14 Integrating the Literature



4 On Refinement

 1 Editing

 2 On Sounding Smart

 3 What to Call This Thing?



5 On Writing as Process

 1 Getting Started

 2 Writing as Process

 3 Writing as Inquiry

 4 Doing the Unstuck

 5 The Panic Attack

 6 Framing and Publishing

 7 Revise and Resubmit

 8 Writing to Connect, Writing for Social Change



Appendix: Writing Prompts

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Teaching Writing ; 9
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 252 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 90-04-50807-4 / 9004508074
ISBN-13 978-90-04-50807-1 / 9789004508071
Zustand Neuware
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