Reading Ethnography

This book presents a model for analyzing and evaluating ethnographic arguments. It examines the relationship between the claims anthropologists make about human behavior and the data they use to warrant them. Jacobson analyzes the textual organization of ethnographies, focusing on the ways in which problems, interpretations, and data are put together. He examines in detail a limited number of well-known ethnographic cases, which are selected to illustrate basic theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis. By advancing a method for assessing ethnographic accounts, the book contributes to the current debate on the role of rhetoric and reflexivity in anthropology.

About the author

David Jacobson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

Product details

• Authors: David Jacobson
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.1991
• EAN: 9780791405468
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0546-8
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Suny Series in Rhetoric and Th; Suny Series in Rhetoric and Th
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology