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The ethnographic imagination : textual constructions of reality / Paul Atkinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990Description: vii, 195 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415050251
  • 9780415050258
  • 0415017610
  • 9780415017619
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 20
LOC classification:
  • GN307.7 .A85 1990
Contents:
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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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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