Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork

Amir B. Marvasti is Professor of Sociology at Penn State Altoona, USA. He is the author of Qualitative Research in Sociology and the co-editor of Researching Social Problems, The Sage Handbook of Interview Research and Doing Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Guide. Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the co-author of Constructing the Life Course and the co-editor of Postmodern Interviewing, Aging and Everyday Life and Qualitative Research Practice.

Introduction: Contours of the Craft PART I: SITES 1. Insider Ethnography in Professional Boxing 2. Getting at the Experience of Confinement in Detention 3. Working Against Social Order in Documenting Imprisonment 4. Site Juxtaposition and Constitutive Comparison in Provisional Encampments PART II: SELVES 5. Is Ethnography Only for Early Career Researchers? 6. Senior Activists and Age Affiliations in Ethnographic Peering 7. Shifting Codes, Continual Vetting and Recurrent Rapport-Building 8. Creating Space for "Foreign Brides" to Talk Back PART III: SOCIAL WORLDS 9. Preschool Social Worlds in Interactional Context 10. Going Concerns of Ethnographic Membership 11. When Fieldwork Comes Home 12. Interpretive Complexity in Language Discordant Fieldwork PART IV: AFTERWORD Elaborating Contours of the Craft