Representing 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. 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.

Volume 1: Contexts and Controversies Introduction - 1. Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont Functionalists write too - 2. Boon, J. A. Stories and Sociology - 3. Davis, F. Looking both ways - 4. Herzfeld, M. Styles of reporting qualitative field research - 5. Lofland, J. Slide show: Evans-Pritchard's African Transparencies - 6. Geertz, C. The emergence of Self-consciousness in Ethnography - 7. Nash, D. and Wintrob, R. On the writing of ethnography - 8. Crapanzano, V. The literary rhetoric of science: comedy and pathos in drinking driver research - 9. Gusfield, J. The analogical tradition and the emergence of dialogical Anthropology - 10. Tedlock, D. What written knowledge does - 11. Bazerman, C. Dialectical Irony - 12. Brown, R.H. On ethnographic Surrealism - 13. Clifford, J. Writing ethnography - 14. Atkinson, P.A. On ethnographic authority - 15. Clifford, C. J. Putting facts together - 16. Law, J. and Williams, R.J. From rapport to under erasure - 17. Marcus, G.E. The Rhetoric of ethnographic holism - 18. Thornton, R.J. Ethnography without tears - 19. Roth, P.A. Rhetoric and the authority of ethnography - 20. Sangren, P.S. The Postmodern turn in anthropology - 21. F.E. Mascia-Lees et al Make me reflexive - but not yet: strategies for managing essential reflexivity in ethnographic discourse - 22. Watson, G. Volume 2: Reading Qualitative Research The rhetoric of economics - 23. McCloskey, D. Textual Persuasion - 24. Yearley, S. Irony: a methodological theory - 25. Anderson, D.C. and Sharrock, W.W. Confronting ethnography's crisis of representation - 26. Denzin, N.K. Four ways to improve the craft of fieldwork - 27. Emerson, R.M. Ethnographies as texts - 28. Marcus, G.E. and Gushman, D. The 'crisis' in representation - 29. Flaherty, M. Beyond Malinowski and after Writing Culture - 30. Marcus, G.E. The crisis in representation: a brief history - 31. Flaherty, M.G. The sky is not falling - 32. Manning, P.K. Anthropology as a kind of writing - 33. Spencer, J. On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski - 34. Clifford, J. Goffman's poetics - 35. Atkinson, P.A. Sarcasm, satire and irony as voices in Goffman's Asylums - 36. Fine, G.A. and Martini, D.D. Out of context - 37. Strathern, M. et al. Volume 3: Analysis and Voice in Qualitative Research Qualitative data analysis - 38. Coffey, A., Holbrook, B. and Atkinson, P. Deja entendu: The liminal qualities of anthropological fieldnotes - 39. Jackson, J.E. On writing field notes - 40. Wolfinger Representing discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription - 41. Mishler, E.G. Qualitative Research and translation dilemmas - 42. Temple and Young Abduction as the type of inference - 43. Richardson and Kramer Fear of Offending - 44. Hoskins and Stoltz The presentation of everyday life: some textual strategies for 'adequate ethnography' - 45. Stoddart, K. 'Dear Researcher' - 46. Letherby and Zdrodwski Gender, the personal and the voice of scholarship - 47. Fleischman Problems of editing 'first-person' sociology - 48. Blauner, B. A taste for the other - 49. Dominguez, V. 51. Moore, S.F. - 50. Narayan, K.How native is the native anthropologist? Explaining the present: Theoretical dilemmas in processional ethnography The collective story: postmodernism and the writing of sociology - 52. Richardson, L. Falling through the 'savage slot' - 53. Austin-Broos, D.J. Troubles in the field - 54. Fortier, A-M. Storytelling and the Interpretation of Meaning in Qualitative Research - 55. Bailey, P.H. and Tilley, S. Studying the self - 56. Saukko Beyond "subjectivity" - 57. Kreiger, S. Writing culture, writing feminism - 58. Gordon, D. Defining feminist ethnography - 59. Visweswaran, K. Volume 4: Writing and Representation What's wrong with ethnography? - 60. Hammersley Doing ethnography, writing ethnography - 61. Stanley Autonomy and credibility: Voice as method - 62. Cohen, I.J. and Rogers, M.F. The theater of ethnography - 63. Mienczakowski, J. Reading and Writing Performance - 64. Denzin The sea monster: An ethnographic drama - 65. Richardson, L. and Lockeridge, E. Fiction and ethnography - 66. Richardson and Lockridge Balancing the Berimbau - 67. Stephens and Delamont The fatal flaw - 68. Sparkes, A. Finding the Limits - 69. Walford Analytic Autoethnography - 70. Anderson Analysing analytic autoethnography - 71. Ellis and Bochner Show me a sign - 72. Brady A walk in the olive grove - 73. Tierney The anthropologists's son - 74. Murphy On auto/biography in sociology - 75. Stanley, L. Plenty confidence in myself: The initiation of a white woman scholar into Haitian vodou - 76. Brown, K. Mc Three women, one struggle: Anthropology, performance and pedagogy - 77. Harrison, F. Performing the text - 78. Paget, M.A. 'I yam what I am' - 79. Jeffries, R.B. Text bites and the R. word - 80. Linnekin, J. Deconstructing dissemination - 81. Barnes et al. Storying Schools - 82. Sikes Dissolution and reconstitution of self - 83. Kondo, D.K. The validity of angels - 84. Lather, P.A. The Collective Story - 85. Richardson Survival in the field: Implications of personal experiences in fieldwork - 86. Clarke, M. Sociological Introspection and emotional experience - 87. Ellis, C.