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Ethnographic Fieldwork
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Ethnographic Fieldwork
A Beginner's Guide
2nd Edition
Jan Blommaert and
Dong Jie
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Blue Ridge Summit
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/BLOMMA7130h
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Names: Blommaert, Jan, author. | Jie, Dong, author.
Title: Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner’s Guide / Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie.
Description: Second Edition. | Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2020. |
First edition published 2010. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The authors draw on their experiences in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle. The 2nd edition of this bestselling book updates the 1st edition and includes a new postscript on ethnography in an online world”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020012158 (print) | LCCN 2020012159 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781788927123 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781788927130 (Hardback) |
ISBN 9781788927147 (PDF) | ISBN 9781788927154 (ePub) | ISBN 9781788927161
(Kindle Edition) Subjects: LCSH: Ethnology—Fieldwork.
Classification: LCC GN346 .B56 2020 (print) | LCC GN346 (ebook) |
DDC 305.80072/3—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020012158
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020012159
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-713-0 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-712-3 (pbk)
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Contents
Ethnography as Counter-hegemony
3The Sequence 1: Prior to Fieldwork
4The Sequence 2: In the Field
Chaos
The Learning Process
Observation and Fieldnotes
Interviewing
Collecting Rubbish
Conclusion
5The Sequence 3: After Fieldwork
Your Data
Techniques and Methods
Analysing Narrative
6By Way of Conclusion
7Postscript: When Your Field Goes Online
The Online–Offline Nexus
What Do We See? The Compelling Bubble
Who is There?
Where are We? Invisible Lines
More Complexity? More
