Guide to imagework : imagination-based research methods / / Iain R. Edgar

• Autore: Edgar Iain R.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (174 p.)
• Disciplina: 153.3
• Soggetto topico: Imagery (Psychology) - Methodology; Dream interpretation; Gestalt psychology; Drama - Therapeutic use; Social psychology - Research; Ethnopsychology - Research
• Classificazione: 73.03
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Defining the imagework method; 'Imaginary fields' and the qualitative research domain; Dreaming as ethnographic research; Methodological issues in dreamwork and imagework groups: a case-study approach; Amplifying the data through groupwork methods or making 'sense' out of 'nonsense'; Charting ethnographic dreaming; Ethical and practice issues; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Guide to Imagework is a pioneering guide to a new trend in ethnographic research: the use of imaginative, experiential methods such as dreamwork, artwork, Gestalt theory and psychodrama. Originating in group counselling and psychiatric therapy, imagework techniques explore subjects' imaginative resources to reveal unconscious knowledge about identity, belief and society. They are ideal for accessing rich qualitative data about how individuals and cultures function. Iain Edgar, a leading specialist on ethnographic method, has condensed top-level research theory on imagework into this
• Titolo autorizzato: Guide to imagework
• ISBN: 1-134-56416-3; 0-203-59855-5; 1-134-56417-1; 1-280-07765-4; 0-203-49013-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783852003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ASA research methods in social anthropology (Routledge (Firm))