Description
Product ID: | 9780415409018 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | The ASA Research Methods |
Title: | Reflexive Ethnography |
Subtitle: | A Guide to Researching Selves and Others |
Authors: | Author: Charlotte Aull Davies |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Social research and statistics, Social research & statistics, Anthropology, Physical anthropology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Reflexive Ethnography provides a practical and comprehensive guide to ethnographic research methods which fully engages with the significant issues of modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity and self/other. Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic authority. Davies examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural levels, should be integrated into ethnographic research and discusses how this can be accomplished for a variety of research methods. This revised and updated second edition includes:
Postmodernist relativism can lead to an over-emphasis on reflexivity that denies the possibility of social research. Reflexive Ethnography utilises postmodernist insights – incorporation of different standpoints, exposure of the intellectual tyranny of meta-narratives – but proposes that reflexive ethnographic research be undertaken from a realist perspective. Reflexive Ethnography will help students to use and understand ethnographic research practices that fully incorporate reflexivity without abandoning claims to develop valid knowledge of social reality. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-10-18 |