Reading Ethnography

by David Jacobson

David Jacobson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791405478
• ISBN13: 9780791405475
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Examining Ethnographic Research for Sociology and Anthropology

From back cover: "This book presents a model for analyzing and evaluating ethnographic arguments. It examines the relationships between the claims anthropologists make about human behavior and the data they use to warrant them. Jacobson analyzes the textual organization or ethnographies, focusing on the ways in which problems, interpretations, and data are put together. He examines in detail a limited number of well-known ethnographic cases, which are selected to illustrate basic theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis. By advancing a method for assessing ethnographic accounts, the book contributes to the current debate on the role of rhetoric and reflexivity in anthropology." ****** CONTENTS: 1 - Introduction 2 - Structural Ethnography 3 - Symbolic Ethnography 4 - Organizational Ethnography 5 - Cases and Contexts 6 - Conclusions