Doing ethnographies

Informed by the authors fieldwork experience, the book covers the relation between theory, practice and writing, and demonstrates how methods work in the field, so preparing the first-time ethnographer for the loss of control and direction often experienced. In five short chapters it presents a systematic overview of: - first principles - the role of the detached researcher , the idea of a pure culture - preparing for fieldwork - initiating access, the relation of knowledge to ethics - constructing ethnographic information - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, filmic approache