| Reading Ethnography Contributor(s): Jacobson, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 079140546X ISBN-13: 9780791405468 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.8 |
| LCCN: 90-35230 |
| Series: Suny Series in Rhetoric and Theology |
| Physical Information: 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
