Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Inside ethnography researchers reflect on the challenges of reaching hidden populations edited by Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla
Published Berkeley University of California Press [2019]
©2019

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) illustrations
Contents Going native with evil / Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard -- Lost in the park: learning to navigate the unpredictability of fieldwork / Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques -- Unearthing aggressive advocacy: challenges and strategies in social service ethnography / Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson -- Going into the gray: conducting fieldwork on corporate misconduct / Eugene Soltes -- Hide-and-seek: challenges in the ethnography of street drug users / Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page -- Into the epistemic void: using rapid assessment to investigate the opioid crisis / Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone -- Conducting international reflexive ethnography: theoretical and methodological struggles / Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan -- Hidden: accessing narratives of parental drug dealing and misuse / Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo -- Navigating stigma: researching opioid and injection drug use among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in New York City / Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper -- Dangerous liaisons: reflections on a serial ethnography / Robert Gay -- The emotional labor of fieldwork with people who use methamphetamine / Heith Copes -- Ethnography of injustice: death at a county jail / Joshua Price
Summary While some books present ""ideal"" ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society's margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnology -- Methodology.
Anthropology -- Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Anthropology -- Methodology
Ethnology -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Boeri, Miriam editor
Shukla, Rashi K. editor
ISBN 9780520970458
0520970454