Reading Ethnography / Edition 1

Reading Ethnography / Edition 1

by David Jacobson
ISBN-10:
0791405478
ISBN-13:
9780791405475
Pub. Date:
07/03/1991
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
0791405478
ISBN-13:
9780791405475
Pub. Date:
07/03/1991
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Reading Ethnography / Edition 1

Reading Ethnography / Edition 1

by David Jacobson

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Overview

This book presents a model for analyzing and evaluating ethnographic arguments. It examines the relationship between the claims anthropologists make about human behavior and the data they use to warrant them. Jacobson analyzes the textual organization of 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791405475
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 07/03/1991
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 148
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Jacobson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Structural Ethnography

3. Symbolic Ethnography

4. Organizational Ethnography

5. Cases and Contexts

6. Conclusions

References

Index

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