Abstract
![CDATA[This chapter will begin with a deceptively simple question: What is ethnography? I will then proceed to fail at some length to answer it exactly. It has been many things in its history, meanings that have shifted and changed as a result of the many different contexts in which it has been used. This trajectory has contributed many unresolved differences and contradictions to the meaning and uses of the word today. Yet these contradictions create a methodical space that is rich and capacious, allowing you to make sense of a variety of different practices, issues and traditions in cultural research today. Ethnography is a subtle and powerful form of cultural research precisely because of its contradictions.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice |
| Place of Publication | South Melbourne, Vic |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 228-236 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195562453 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- ethnology
- culture
- research