From Notes to Narrative by Kristen Ghodsee
Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural anthropology to fields such as sociology, marketing, media studies, law, criminology, education, cultural studies, history, geography, and political science. Yet, while more and more students and practitioners are learning how to write ethnographies, there is little or no training on how to write ethnographies well.From Notes to Narrative picks up where methodological training leaves off. Kristen Ghodsee, an award-winning ethnographer, addresses common issues that arise in ethnographic writing. Ghodsee works through sentence-level details, such as word choice and structure. She also tackles bigger-picture elements, such as how to incorporate theory and ethnographic details, how to effectively deploy dialogue, and how to avoid distracting elements such as long block quotations and in-text citations. She includes excerpts and examples from model ethnographies. The book concludes with a bibliography of other useful writing guides and nearly one hundred examples of eminently readable ethnographic books.
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Kristen R.Ghodsee is a Ph.D. candidate. Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he graduated from UC Berkeley. She has published six books on Eastern European gender, socialism, and post-socialism, focusing on the everyday realities of upheaval and dislocation that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Ghodsee is also a co-author of Professor Mommy: Achieving Work-Family Balance in Academia and writes about women's issues for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Eurozine, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, and the New York Times have all published her essays and articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226257556 |
| ISBN 10 | 022625755X |
| Title | From Notes to Narrative |
| Author | Kristen Ghodsee |
| Series | Chicago Guides To Writing Editing And Publishing |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2016-05-10 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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