Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide

by Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie

Book Overview

Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184769294X
• ISBN13: 9781847692948
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.0"