Handbook of Ethnography

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales. My research interests are underpinned by a sustained, critical methodological engagement with ethnographic and qualitative research. This includes work on contemporary developments in qualitative data analysis, writing and representation, as well as a focus on of the self and (auto)biography in qualitative inquiry. I have led and been involved in a number of funded projects focussing on qualitative research methods and methodological development. I am currently the Director of the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (QUALITI) (2005-8). Dr Sara Delamont, DSc Econ, AcSS. read Social Anthropology at Girton College Cambridge, did her PhD at Edinburgh, and lectured at Leicester before moving to Cardiff in 1976. She was the first woman to be President of BERA (the British Education Research Association) and the first woman Dean of Social Sciences at Cardiff. She has done ethnographies in schools, and other settings where teaching and learning take place such as operatic master classes and martial arts studios. With Paul Atkinson she is the Founding Editor of Qualitative Research, and is the author of fourteen books.

Introduction to Part One The Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D Faubion British Social Anthropology - Sharon Macdonald Into the Community - Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods - Liz Stanley Orientalism - Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja Maso Semiotics, Semantics and Ethnography - Peter K Manning Grounded Theory in Ethnography - Kathy Charmaz and Richard G Mitchell Introduction to Part Two The Ethnography of Health and Medicine - Michael Bloor Ethnographic Research in Educational Settings - Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland and Elina Lahelma Ethnography and the Study of Deviance - Dick Hobbs Ethnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnographers - Vicki Smith Ethnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies - David Hess Ethnography in the Study of Children and Childhood - Allison James Ethnography and Material Culture - Christopher Tilley Ethnography - Joost van Loon A Critical Turn in Cultural Studies The Ethnography of Communication - Elizabeth Keating Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film - Mike Ball and Greg Smith Introduction to Part Three Ethnography as Work - Christopher Wellin and Gary Alan Fine Career Socialization, Settings and Problems The Ethics of Ethnography - Elizabeth Murphy and Robert Dingwall Participant Observation and Fieldnotes - Robert M Emerson, Rachel I Fretz and Linda L Shaw Ethnographic Interviewing - Barbara Sherman Heyl Narrative Analysis in Ethnography - Martin Cortazzi The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research - Ken Plummer Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography - Deborah Reed-Danahay Feminist Ethnography - Beverley Skeggs Ethnography After Post-modernism - Jonathan Spencer Computer Applications in Qualitative Research - Nigel Fielding Ethnodrama - Jim Mienczakowski Performed Research-limitations and Potential Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism and Post (Critical) Ethnography - Patti Lather Of Ruins, Aporias and Angels

`This wonderful Handbook establishes the central, and complex place ethnography now occupies in the human disciplines. All future work will begin here. This Handbook will soon become required reading for all scholars and graduate students who wish to be knowledgeable in this complex field of inquiry. This is a stunning accomplishment. The field owes the editors and their contributors a major debt of thanks' - Norman K Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign `A marvellous achievement! The Handbook has all the marks of a winner - compelling writing, comprehensive coverage and very useful discussions. This is a real benchmark for ethnography. It will set the background for debate and point to new directions for years to come. My graduate students will love it' - Jaber F Gubrium, University of Florida, Gainesville `The Handbook of Ethnography compiles invaluable, original, critical essays on ethnographic work, earning it a place on everyone's must-have bookshelf' - Virginia Olesen, University of California, San Francisco