Title:
The ethnographic imagination : textual constructions of reality / Paul Atkinson.
Author:
Atkinson, Paul, 1947-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188) and index.
Introduction: ethnography as method and as genre -- Ethnography and the poetics of sociology -- Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts -- Ethnography and the representation of reality -- Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography -- Narrative and the representation of social action -- Character and type: the textual construction of actors -- Difference, distance, and irony -- Conclusion: textual possibilities.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
0415050251
9780415050258
0415017610 (pbk.)
9780415017619 (pbk.)
Subject:
Ethnology -- Authorship.
Ethnologie -- Art d'âecrire.
Etnografie.
Beschrijvingen.
Werkelijkheid.
Contents:
Introduction: ethnography as method and as genre -- Ethnography and the poetics of sociology -- Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts -- Ethnography and the representation of reality -- Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography -- Narrative and the representation of social action -- Character and type: the textual construction of actors -- Difference, distance, and irony -- Conclusion: textual possibilities.
Physical Description:
vii, 195 p. ;
Publication Date:
1990.
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