Writing Ethnography (Second Edition)

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