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Reading and Interpreting Ethnography

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Abstract

Ethnography is an approach to understanding cultural life that is founded on the researcher’s participation, with the goal of understanding not simply what people are doing, but how they experience what they do. The researcher participates in the life of the target people, both to serve as a stimulus (asking questions) that generates reactions and insights and to fully engage in the evolution and understanding of what is happening.

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Fußnoten
1
It should be noted that this is a very European history. Many of the same considerations animated the approximately contemporaneous work of Franz Boas in the USA, although their context was quite different.
 
2
This is an activity not for an individual but for a discipline, although articles in places like the Annual Review of Anthropology clearly provide some insight. More broadly, this approach signals the way that literature reviews do more than simply demonstrate that things have been read.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
verfasst von
Paul Dourish
Copyright-Jahr
2014
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_1

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