The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity

by Amanda Coffey

Book Overview

What are the relationships between the self and fieldwork? How do personal, emotional and identity issues impact upon working in the field?

This book argues that ethnographers, and others involved in fieldwork, should be aware of how fieldwork research and ethnographic writing construct, reproduce and implicate selves, relationships and personal identities. All too often research methods texts remain relatively silent about the ways in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761952675
• ISBN13: 9780761952671
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"