Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience: An Epistemological Critique

by Wing-chung Ho

Book Overview

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho posits that writing is epistemologically prior to the researcher's fieldwork experience in the production of ethnographic knowledge. This stance is developed using the theories of hermeneutics put forward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138478903
• ISBN13: 9781138478909
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"