Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others (The ASA Research Methods) - Softcover

Aull Davies, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415409012 ISBN 13: 9780415409018

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic authority.

Davies examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural levels, should be integrated into ethnographic research and discusses how this can be accomplished for a variety of research methods. This revised and updated second edition includes:

• a new chapter on internet-based research and ‘interethnography’
• chapters on selection of topics and methods, data collection and analysis, and ethics and politics of research
• practical advice on writing up ethnographic study
• new and updated research examples.

Postmodernist relativism can lead to an over-emphasis on reflexivity that denies the possibility of social research. Reflexive Ethnography utilises postmodernist insights – incorporation of different standpoints, exposure of the intellectual tyranny of meta-narratives – but proposes that reflexive ethnographic research be undertaken from a realist perspective. Reflexive Ethnography will help students to use and understand ethnographic research practices that fully incorporate reflexivity without abandoning claims to develop valid knowledge of social reality.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Aull Davies is an honorary research fellow at Swansea University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415409012
• ISBN 13: 9780415409018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320