Person to Person

Fieldwork, Dialogue, and the Hermeneutic Method

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

Av Barry P. Michrina, CherylAnne Richards, Cherylanne Richards

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The first undergraduate guide to qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this book describes a step-by-step procedure called the dialogical hermeneutic method of analysis, including its philosophical basis, practical application, and ethical implications. The authors delineate the characteristics of the scientific and humanistic paradigms in the social sciences and emphasize that the hermeneutic method is employed in the humanistic paradigm. They discuss topics often missing from fieldwork manuals, such as journal keeping, personal and interpersonal relationships, ethics, and writing the ethnographic essay.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-03-14
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt236 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor188
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791428344

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Prologue to InstructorsPrefaceAcknowledgments Part I: Theory 1. Underlying Philosophy2. Theoretical Principles Part II: Method 3. Design and Sampling4. Oral Discourse5. Field Notes and Journals6. The Personal and the Interpersonal7. Data Analysis8. Ethics9. Writing Part III:Advanced Considerations 10. Using Lived Experience11. Oral History EpilogueAppendix: Helpful HintsSuggested ReadingsBibliographyIndex

"The exercises at the end of each chapter challenge the reader and also provide step-by-step guidance into the intricasies of field work. The questions of 'challenge' and 'horizons of understanding' are highly original in the rethinking of observer bias. The text is practical and constructive as it progresses through the epistemological minefield of field work."An important reader in methodology for anthropology's postmodern phase, Person to Person represents a watershed and will ignite a great deal of debate. Many anthropologists will recognize much of what they struggle with. My congratulations for producing a fascinating and worthwhile text." — Ian Prattis, Carleton University, Ottawa"The authors make hermeneutics intelligible to undergraduates—and to some faculty who will want a basic discussion but will never admit they got it from an elementary source. They evoke an enthusiasm for undertaking ethnographic field work, for learning from 'the cultural other,' and a healthy confidence that the undergraduate student can learn something significant in a manageable time frame." — Van A. Reidhead, University of Missouri, St. Louis