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The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity to increase the impact and beauty of ethnographic study.
List of contents
1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Creative Ethnography as a Field 2. Chapter 2: Creative Engagements with Social Theory: Writing through the Abstract to Arrive at the Concrete 3. Chapter 3: Reading Ethnographies with Creative Attention to the Senses 4. Chapter 4: Creative Approaches to What Matters & Paying Attention to What Makes You Curious 5. Chapter 5: Designing Ways to Make Data Sing 6. Chapter 6: Entering the Field Site: Space and the Non-Human: Seeing the Field, Landscape, and Non-Human Life in Places of Inquiry 7. Chapter 7: Language: We Are What We Speak 8. Chapter 8: Our Bodies, Our Selves: Interrogating the Ethnographic Body, Kinship and Food during Fieldwork 9. Chapter 9: People, Places, and Performance: Ritual, Religion, and Visualities 10. Chapter 10: Creative Approaches to Social Science Data 11. Chapter 11: Writing it Up: Multimodality, Genre, and How to Translate Creative Activity for Academic Audiences 12. Chapter 12: Creative Ethnographic Fieldstarters 13. Chapter 13: Looking Back and Moving Forward
About the author
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Meigs Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, has authored six books, including a book of poems,
Imperfect Tense. She became a Fulbright Ambassador (Mexico) in 2022.
Kristina Jacobsen, Associate Professor of Songwriting and Anthropology (Sociocultural & Linguistic) at the University of New Mexico, is a touring singer-songwriter and Fulbright Scholar (US-Italy, 2019-2020).
Summary
The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity to increase the impact and beauty of ethnographic study.
