Crafting Ethnography

This final book in Paul Atkinson's celebrated quartet focuses on material culture and sensory ethnography. Using the author's original fieldwork, the book explores how materials, techniques, tools, and perspectives combine with the five senses to inform ethnographic methods.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Ethnographic Instances
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Knowing
Chapter 3: Hot Glass: Embodied Learning
Chapter 4: Clay: Tools and Turnings
Chapter 5: Two Spoons: Wood and Silver
Chapter 6: Looking and Observing: Life-Drawing
Chapter 7: Photography: Gaze and Resistance
Chapter 8: The Craft of Ethnography

About the author

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Profesor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include Ethnographic Engagements, with Sara Delamont (Routledge 2021) and Reflexivity and Social Research, with Emilie Morwenna Whitaker (Palgrave 2022). His quartet of books on Ethnography includes For Ethnography (SAGE 2014), Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017) and Writing Ethnographically (SAGE 2019) and Crafting Ethnography (SAGE 2022). The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He was a co-editor of the SAGE Foundations of Social Research Methods. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Atkinson
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781529701234
• ISBN: 978-1-5297-0123-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Research methods: general, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework