Handbook of Ethnography

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales. Dr Sara Delamont, DSc Econ, AcSS. read Social Anthropology at Girton College Cambridge, did her PhD at Edinburgh, and lectured at Leicester before moving to Cardiff in 1976. She was the first woman to be President of BERA (the British Education Research Association) and the first woman Dean of Social Sciences at Cardiff. She has done ethnographies in schools, and other settings where teaching and learning take place such as operatic master classes and martial arts studios. With Paul Atkinson she is the Founding Editor of Qualitative Research, and is the author of fourteen books. My research interests are underpinned by a sustained, critical methodological engagement with ethnographic and qualitative research. This includes work on contemporary developments in qualitative data analysis, writing and representation, as well as a focus on of the self and (auto)biography in qualitative inquiry. I have led and been involved in a number of funded projects focussing on qualitative research methods and methodological development. I am currently the Director of the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (QUALITI) (2005-8).

• INTRODUCTION TO PART ONEThe Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo DeeganSymbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul RockCurrents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D FaubionBritish Social Anthropology - Sharon MacdonaldInto the Community - Lodewijk BruntMass-Observation′s Fieldwork Methods - Liz StanleyOrientalism - Julie MarcusEthnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M EmersonPhenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja MasoSemiotics, Semantics and Ethnography - Peter K ManningGrounded Theory in Ethnography - Kathy Charmaz and Richard G MitchellINTRODUCTION TO PART TWOThe Ethnography of Health and Medicine - Michael BloorEthnographic Research in Educational Settings - Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland and Elina LahelmaEthnography and the Study of Deviance - Dick HobbsEthnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnographers - Vicki SmithEthnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies - David HessEthnography in the Study of Children and Childhood - Allison JamesEthnography and Material Culture - Christopher TilleyEthnography: A Critical Turn in Cultural Studies - Joost van LoonThe Ethnography of Communication - Elizabeth KeatingTechnologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film - Mike Ball and Greg SmithIntroduction to Part ThreeEthnography as Work - Christopher Wellin and Gary Alan FineThe Ethics of Ethnography - Elizabeth Murphy and Robert DingwallParticipant Observation and Fieldnotes - Robert M Emerson, Rachel I Fretz and Linda L ShawEthnographic Interviewing - Barbara Sherman HeylNarrative Analysis in Ethnography - Martin CortazziThe Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research - Ken PlummerAutobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography - Deborah Reed-DanahayFeminist Ethnography - Beverley SkeggsEthnography After Post-modernism - Jonathan SpencerComputer Applications in Qualitative Research - Nigel FieldingEthnodrama: Performed Research-limitations and Potential - Jim MienczakowskiPostmodernism, Post-Structuralism and Post (Critical) Ethnography - Patti Lather

This is a very detailed and excellent resource for anyone thinking of working in an ethnographic way. The referencing is extensive with clearly divided chapters on all aspects of ethnography. The content is of interest from a historical, methodological and practical perspective and approaches the topic in a broad and open way: a textbook that should be available in every library.