Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Title Page Dedication Contents Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition 1. Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research

Ethnographic Participation The Complexities of Description Inscribing Experienced/Observed Realities Implications for Writing Fieldnotes Reflections: Writing Fieldnotes and Ethnographic Practice

2. In the Field: Participating, Observing, and Jotting Notes

Participating in Order to Write What Are Jottings? Making Jottings: How, Where, and When Reflections: Writing and Ethnographic Marginality

3. Writing Fieldnotes I: At the Desk, Creating Scenes on a Page

Moving from Field to Desk Recalling in Order to Write Writing Detailed Notes: Depiction of Scenes Narrating a Day’s Entry: Organizational Strategies In-Process Analytic Writing: Asides and Commentaries Reflections: “Writing” and “Reading” Modes

4. Writing Fieldnotes II: Multiple Purposes and Stylistic Options

Stance and Audience in Writing Fieldnotes Narrating Choices about Perspective Fieldnote Tales: Writing Extended Narrative Segments Analytic Writing: In-Process Memos Reflections: Fieldnotes as Products of Writing Choices

5. Pursuing Members’ Meanings

Imposing Exogenous Meanings Representing Members’ Meanings Members’ Categories in Use: Processes and Problems Race, Gender, Class, and Members’ Meanings Local Events and Social Forces Reflections: Using Fieldnotes to Discover/Create Members’ Meanings

6. Processing Fieldnotes: Coding and Memoing

Reading Fieldnotes as a Data Set Open Coding Writing Code Memos Selecting Themes Focused Coding Integrative Memos Reflections: Creating Theory from Fieldnotes

7. Writing an Ethnography

Developing a Thematic Narrative Transposing Fieldnotes into Ethnographic Text Producing a Completed Ethnographic Document Reflections: Between Members and Readers

8. Conclusion Notes References Index