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Ooh this is a dry one. You got to really be jonesn' for ethnography or getting college credit. Former here. I am a SoCal man living in the south. I recently started observing the natives and their customs. I thought it only fitting to document their ways proper. 0226206831 The book is useful. Fittingly it is also a bit dry: The style is accessible (particularly for a social science book) but the reading was not fun (I know, that is rarely the case, but H.S. Becker’s books are, for example fun to read, and on similar topics). Aside of that, it is very good. I have few books which made me write that many notes to point to useful snippets and ideas. It also makes a relatively tacit and It’s-an-art-aspect of fieldwork graspable. Appropriately for a book dealing with ethnography, it does not provide you with a simple list of 5 most important field not tricks: It is very descriptive, demonstrates by example how fieldnotes can be like, how they can be used, contextualized, analyzed. Thus, the books content goes far beyond it's title: While writing fieldnotes is indeed a large part of of it's content, it also talks about their use in analysis and writing monographs. This is not for stretching the number of pages but the parts on use of fieldnotes connects naturally with content on their writing. 0226206831 Some very helpful practical tips, especially for newbie ethnographers like myself. I wish I had read it before I did my first field research - it would have saved me some time and efforts.
It is also a great book to come back to if you are in the field and have zero motivation to jot little things down promising yourself to write them down later or being sure that you will just 'remember' them. The authors do a very good job of convincing you to write them down NOW - a part that I often find challenging. 0226206831 This is a no-nonsense manual you could come back to again and again for help with writing fieldnotes and coding qualitative data. It could be useful across a number of applications, though it is grounded in ethnographic fieldnotes for anthropologists.
Some reviews say that it's dry... I'm not sure what to expect from a text called Ethnographic Fieldnotes other than dry. Is it Danielle Steel? No, but it's certainly not the driest book I've ever read. I found it a smooth read that can be easily translated to the health sciences. 0226206831 This is a great book for an introduction to write jottings, fieldnotes, and finally ethnographies. It is also great for get to know the basics of how to fieldwork in a practical sense. I've read the second edition of the book. As authors imply, it is reorganized for clearly furthering into the issue of writing fieldnotes.
I, especially, emphasize the book's organization, because, for example, it does not directly give you the footnotes on the same page. Generally I don't like this kind of endnote books. But in this case, it does help you to get the idea of not to be exposed of theoretical, conceptual etc. concerns related with ethnography but to write only fieldnotes, in their proper way.
Yes, it is sometimes repetitive, but it only gives you an empty concept, fieldnotes, and teaches you how to fulfill it, and finish ethnographies. 0226206831
Questo volume riporta molti spunti, lo ritengo estremamente utile per chi si approccia a scrivere diari di campo. Spesso il fatto che questo tema sia ritenuto molto personale, da un lato frena le riflessioni e le condivisioni circa le note di campo. Questo siciramente è un buon punto di partenza per iniziare una riflessione. 0226206831 Read for doctoral qualitative methods class. This convinced me I will never be an ethnographer, but I'm glad I learned more about this method. 0226206831 It took me years to get through it. I almost gave it 3 stars for that reason. But as as someone who has had almost no formal ethnography training, but plans to dabble in ethnographic writing, it was a helpful read.
It gives lots of concrete tips and examples. It talks about things like: ways to take field notes; how to organize the field notes; pros and cons of writing in first person or third person; thinking about your audience; and representing the studied group well. 0226206831 This showed up in my readers also enjoyed today. What a blast from the past! I own this and read it in college. I think we read Tales from the Field as well, or at least part of it. At the time I was training to be an ethnomusicologist, but I became a writer instead (though I do often write about music!). 0226206831 This book has very helpful strategies for writing and coding field notes, particularly given how often these practices are explained in vague, even obfuscatory ways. What I found frustrating was actually the way race and class were represented in these students' notes and analyses, often betraying an underlying anti-blackness. The authors' uses of blacks was especially jarring. In one instance, notes describe an interlocutor pulling his arms back as though skiing and running in place - clearly an instance of doing a dance called the running man. While the authors defend the use of student field notes, it is clear that much of this research was conducted in places where they had little cultural literacy (or in an effort to be ethnographic, reproduced tropes), resulting in stereotyped observations and conclusions despite the authors' explanations otherwise. In that sense, this text is successful in two ways: 1) Explaining the value of field notes and how they can be written to create theory and insights, and 2) Demonstrating the violence of othering your interlocutors. 0226206831
In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies and show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but from learning to envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet. This new edition reflects the extensive feedback the authors have received from students and instructors since the first edition was published in 1995. As a result, they have updated the race, class, and gender section, created new sections on coding programs and revising first drafts, and provided new examples of working notes. An essential tool for budding social scientists, the second edition of Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes will be invaluable for a new generation of researchers entering the field. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes