Interpreting the Field: Accounts of Ethnography

by Dick Hobbs, Tim May

Overview

This book has two central purposes: to demonstrate the importance of qualitative research through an examination of the type of data that it is capable of producing, and, to do so using first-hand research accounts of ethnographic work. In reflecting upon personal experiences of field-work, together with the research strategies employed, the authors illustrate their arguments in a detailed and accessible manner. The themes they discuss include the ethics and politics of field-work, reflexivity and data production, feminist field-work, the publication and production of studies, and an examination of the contrasting cultures of academia and what is normally termed the 'field', where knowledges are authenticated according to different rules and power relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198258414
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/17/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: Field-WorkLike that Desmond Morris?, Gary ArmstrongPeer, Careers, and Academic Fears Writing as Field-Work, Dick HobbsPart II: PoliticsFeeling Matter: Inverting the Hidden Equation, Tim MayTaking Sides: Partisan Research on the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, Penny GreenPart IIISome Ethical Considerations on Field-Work with the Police, Clive NorrisDealing with Data, Jane FountainPart IV: Women and EthnographyGreenham Revisited: Researching Myself and My Sisters, Sasha RoseneilRacism, Sexuality, and the Process of Ethnographic Research, H. L. Ackers