Summary
Contents
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.
Inscriptions
Inscriptions
The ethnographer constructs and reconstructs social phenomena. The collection and preparation of “data,” as well as the various procedures of “analysis,” imply the writing and reading of textual materials. There is no datum that exists independently of its inscription in ...