Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork

<p>Through a series of case studies this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges it showcases ethnographic fieldwork as ongoing analytic engagement with concrete social worlds. From engagements with boxing and nightlife to preschooling and migratory encampments portrayed is a process that is anything but a set of pre-packaged challenges and hurdles of simple-minded procedural tropes such as entrée rapport and departure. Instead ethnography emerges as what it has been from its beginnings: a rough-and-ready analytic matter of seeking understanding in unrecognized and diverse fields of interaction. <i>Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork</i> will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in the practice of participant observation and related questions of research methodology.</p>