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Understanding Ethnographic Texts
- Paul A. Atkinson - Cardiff University, UK
58 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In this volume, Paul Atkinson presents useful advice on how to read, and therefore how to write, ethnography. He examines how ethnographers create field notes and how they do interview transcriptions, inevitably revealing the author's hand. He outlines various literary conventions used in ethnographic writing and points out some of the recent experiments that have departed from traditional ethnographic style. He links these to an analysis of the contributions of postmodernist theory to ethnographic work.
Introduction
The Field as Text
Inscriptions
Transcriptions
Genres
Alternatives
Conclusion
Although this book does offer the reader some insights into how to read and write ethnographic texts, it goes beyond the scope of PGCE study for initial trainee teachers in their mini research enquiries.
Education , University of Manchester
February 22, 2012
