Interpretive ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic practices for the 21st century / / Norman K. Denzin

• Autore: Denzin Norman K
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8; 305.8001
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Philosophy; Ethnology - Authorship; Ethnology - Methodology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Interpretive ethnography
• ISBN: 1-5063-2092-9; 1-4522-4367-0; 1-4522-4851-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480628003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II