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Ethnographer's Way A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design

Peterson, Kristin Olson, Valerie
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

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9781478025900
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2024-05-31
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Duke University Press
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572 gr
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254 mm
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UP, 05
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Peterson, Kristin
Olson, Valerie

Biographical note

Kristin Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria, also published by Duke University Press.

Valerie Olson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth.

Ethnographer's Way A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design

Peterson, Kristin Olson, Valerie
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Peterson, Kristin Olson, Valerie
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“Offering an agenda for contemporary ethnographic research design that finally brings our disciplinary methods in line with current ethnographic theory, <i>The Ethnographer’s Way</i> provides a radically transformed cartography for research. This exceptional book will become canonical for its meticulously tested step-by-step instructions, its thoughtful, generous, and generative set of solutions, and the possibilities it will open up in the academy.”

- Emilia Sanabria, author of, Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

“<i>The Ethnographer’s Way</i> is an outstanding guide for students to investigate their own set of desires for places, questions, and theories that can become the conceptual glue that holds a project together for proposals, fieldwork, and writing. Deeply attentive to the psychological difficulty of imagining a truly ethnographic project before the fieldwork has been done, it is a manual for transforming the feeling of being overwhelmed into insight. This is a much-needed book for which there is no equivalent.”

- Joseph Dumit, author of, Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

The Ethnographer’s Way guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson introduce “multidimensioning,” a method for planning projects that invites scholars to examine their research interests from all angles. Researchers learn to integrate seemingly disparate groups, processes, sites, and things into a unified conceptual framework. The handbook’s ten modules walk readers step-by-step, from the initial lightbulb moment to constructing research descriptions, planning data gathering, writing grant and dissertation proposals, and preparing for fieldwork. Designed for ethnographers and those working across disciplines, these modules provide examples of multidimensional research projects with exercises readers can utilize to formulate their own projects. The authors incorporate group work into each module to break the isolation common in academic project design. In so doing, Peterson and Olson’s handbook provides essential support and guidance for researchers working at all levels and stages of a project.
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In The Ethnographer’s Way, Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson guide students and scholars through the process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project.
List of Tables, Examples, Figures, and Formulas  xi Prelude. Why and How to Use This Handbook  xvii Acknowledgments  xxvii Introduction. Multidimensional Concept Work  1 Interlude 1. Creating a Collective Concept Workspace  31 Module 1. Imagine the Research  43 Module 2. Focues on Literatures  69 Module 3. Map Concepts  95 Module 4. Create Multidimensional Concept Combos  111 Module 5. Describe Your Research  139 Module 6. Perceive Your Multidemensional Object  167 Interlude 2. The Inquiry Zones  191 Module 7. The Scoping Zone  195 Module 8. The Connecting Zone  223 Module 9. The Interacting Zone  247 Module 10. Mobilize Your Research Project Grid  273 Postlude. Resting, Reflecting, Preparing to Begin Anew  301 Appendix 1. Scheduling the Modules for Academic Quarters and Semesters  303 Appendix 2. Wilkinson’s Partially Filled Research Project Grid  305 Glossary  309 Notes  315 Bibliography  321 Index  
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“Offering an agenda for contemporary ethnographic research design that finally brings our disciplinary methods in line with current ethnographic theory, The Ethnographer’s Way provides a radically transformed cartography for research. This exceptional book will become canonical for its meticulously tested step-by-step instructions, its thoughtful, generous, and generative set of solutions, and the possibilities it will open up in the academy.”
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“Offering an agenda for contemporary ethnographic research design that finally brings our disciplinary methods in line with current ethnographic theory, <i>The Ethnographer’s Way</i> provides a radically transformed cartography for research. This exceptional book will become canonical for its meticulously tested step-by-step instructions, its thoughtful, generous, and generative set of solutions, and the possibilities it will open up in the academy.”

- Emilia Sanabria, author of, Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

“<i>The Ethnographer’s Way</i> is an outstanding guide for students to investigate their own set of desires for places, questions, and theories that can become the conceptual glue that holds a project together for proposals, fieldwork, and writing. Deeply attentive to the psychological difficulty of imagining a truly ethnographic project before the fieldwork has been done, it is a manual for transforming the feeling of being overwhelmed into insight. This is a much-needed book for which there is no equivalent.”

- Joseph Dumit, author of, Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

The Ethnographer’s Way guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson introduce “multidimensioning,” a method for planning projects that invites scholars to examine their research interests from all angles. Researchers learn to integrate seemingly disparate groups, processes, sites, and things into a unified conceptual framework. The handbook’s ten modules walk readers step-by-step, from the initial lightbulb moment to constructing research descriptions, planning data gathering, writing grant and dissertation proposals, and preparing for fieldwork. Designed for ethnographers and those working across disciplines, these modules provide examples of multidimensional research projects with exercises readers can utilize to formulate their own projects. The authors incorporate group work into each module to break the isolation common in academic project design. In so doing, Peterson and Olson’s handbook provides essential support and guidance for researchers working at all levels and stages of a project.
Les mer
In The Ethnographer’s Way, Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson guide students and scholars through the process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project.
List of Tables, Examples, Figures, and Formulas  xi Prelude. Why and How to Use This Handbook  xvii Acknowledgments  xxvii Introduction. Multidimensional Concept Work  1 Interlude 1. Creating a Collective Concept Workspace  31 Module 1. Imagine the Research  43 Module 2. Focues on Literatures  69 Module 3. Map Concepts  95 Module 4. Create Multidimensional Concept Combos  111 Module 5. Describe Your Research  139 Module 6. Perceive Your Multidemensional Object  167 Interlude 2. The Inquiry Zones  191 Module 7. The Scoping Zone  195 Module 8. The Connecting Zone  223 Module 9. The Interacting Zone  247 Module 10. Mobilize Your Research Project Grid  273 Postlude. Resting, Reflecting, Preparing to Begin Anew  301 Appendix 1. Scheduling the Modules for Academic Quarters and Semesters  303 Appendix 2. Wilkinson’s Partially Filled Research Project Grid  305 Glossary  309 Notes  315 Bibliography  321 Index  
Les mer
“Offering an agenda for contemporary ethnographic research design that finally brings our disciplinary methods in line with current ethnographic theory, The Ethnographer’s Way provides a radically transformed cartography for research. This exceptional book will become canonical for its meticulously tested step-by-step instructions, its thoughtful, generous, and generative set of solutions, and the possibilities it will open up in the academy.”
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478025900
Publisert
2024-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Peterson, Kristin
Olson, Valerie

Biographical note

Kristin Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria, also published by Duke University Press.

Valerie Olson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth.

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