The ethnographic imagination : textual constructions of reality / Paul Atkinson.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990Description: vii, 195 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415050251
- 9780415050258
- 0415017610
- 9780415017619
- 305.8 20
- GN307.7 .A85 1990
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-188) and index.
Introduction: ethnography as method and as genre -- Ethnography and the poetics of sociology -- Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts -- Ethnography and the representation of reality -- Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography -- Narrative and the representation of social action -- Character and type: the textual construction of actors -- Difference, distance, and irony -- Conclusion: textual possibilities --
1. Introduction : ethnography a method and as genre -- 2. Ethnography and the poetics of sociology -- 3. Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts -- 4. Ethnography and the representation of reality -- 5. Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography -- 6. Narrative and the representation of social action -- 7. Character and type: the textual construction of actors -- 8. Difference, distance, and irony -- 9. Conclusion: textual possibilities.
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