Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century
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Book
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ISBN 10
0803972997
ISBN 13
9780803972995
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Publication Year
1996
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Pages
352
Subject
Ethnology--Philosophy. Ethnology--Authorship. Ethnology--Methodology.
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Abstract
As the world's culture has become both postmodern and multinational, so too must ethnography. In this volume, Norman K Denzin examines the changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. The author ponders the prospects, problems, and forms of ethnographic interpretive writing in the twenty-first century. He argues cogently and persuasively that postmodern ethnography is the moral discourse of the contemporary world, and that ethnographers can and should explore new types of experimental texts, performance-based texts, literary journalism and narratives of the self to form a new ethics of inquiry. - from Amazon
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The lessons James Joyce teaches us -- Visual truth and the ethnographic project -- The standpoint epistemologies -- Performance texts -- The new journalists -- The private eye -- Ethnopoetics and naratives of the self -- Reading narrative -- The sixth moment.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-314) and index.
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1
