Product Description

Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world.

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. (20080318)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #198188 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"Crang and Cook provide a well-written practical guide to doing ethnographic research in the broadest sense of the term.  They begin with a useful discussion of what ethnographic research entails, especially in human geography, and how it fits in the broader realm of social research in a postmodern context.  Their discussion of validating truth claims in qualitative research is especially valuable."

-CHOICE (W. Kotter CHOICE )

Customer Reviews

The Craft of Ethnography
I have just been recommending this book to a PhD student beginning her fieldwork. It is rare that ethnography books successfully combine telling fieldwork tales, passing on the craft of ethnography and at the same time being thoughtful. This book does that.

It began its life over ten years ago as a photocopied document that was passed around amongst postgraduates. It established itself as a classic guide without every being properly bound and commercially published, until now. (And what a nice job they have done on the cover here).

If you are thinking about ethnographic fieldwork, start here.