| Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide Contributor(s): Blommaert, Jan (Author), Jie, Dong (Author) |
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ISBN: 184769294X ISBN-13: 9781847692948 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Psychology |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2010021280 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.7" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations. Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie draw on their own experiences as fieldworkers in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an easily accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle before, during and after fieldwork. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blommaert, Jan: - Jan Blommaert is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Jie, Dong: -Dong Jie completed her PhD at Tilburg University in 2009. She is a linguistic anthropologist at the Babylon Center and the Department of Languages and Cultures, Tilburg University. Her publications include Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginnera s Guide (2010, with Jan Blommaert). |