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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791714703321

Autore

Denzin Norman K

Titolo

Interpretive ethnography : ethnographic practices for the 21st century / / Norman K. Denzin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1997

ISBN

1-5063-2092-9

1-4522-4367-0

1-4522-4851-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 325 pages)

Disciplina

305.8001

Soggetti

Ethnology - Philosophy

Ethnology - Authorship

Ethnology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part I - Reading the Crisis; Chapter 1 - Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us; Chapter 2 - Visual Truth and the Ethnographic Project; Part II - Experiential Texts; Chapter 3 - Standpoint Epistemologies; Chapter 4 - Performance Texts; Chapter 5 - The New Journalism; Chapter 6 - The Private Eye; Chapter 7 - Ethnographic Poetics and Narratives of the Self; Part III - Whose Truth?; Chapter 8 - Reading Narrative; Chapter 9 - The Sixth Moment; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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 nar