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Bibliography of
fieldwork, research methods and ethnography
in sociocultural anthropology

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Borut Telban Borut.Telban@zrc-sazu.si

Last updated: 09 Jul 2001

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Bibliography of fieldwork, research methods and ethnography in sociocultural anthropology

|| Introduction to fieldwork || Research methods || Ethics and fieldwork || Sex, gender and fieldwork || Writing ethnography || History and theory of anthropological research || Personal accounts of anthropological fieldwork ||


Writing ethnography

ATKINSON, Paul. 1990. The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of
Reality. London: Routledge.

BANKS, Anna and Stephen P. BANKS. 1998. Fiction and Social Research: By Ice or
Fire. Oxford: AltaMira Press.

BECKER, Howard S. 1986. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish
Your Thesis, Book, or Article. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

BOON, J. 1983. Functionalists Write, too: Frazer/Malinowski and the Semiotics of
the Monograph. Semiotica 46:131-49.

CLIFFORD, James. 1980. Fieldwork, Reciprocity and the Making of Ethnographic
Texts. Man 15: 518-532.

CLIFFORD, James. 1983. On Ethnographic Authority. Representations 1(2):118-146
(Reprinted in Clifford, 1988(

CLIFFORD, James. 1988. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century
Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

CLIFFORD, James. 1980. Ethnographic Surrealism. Comparative Studies in Society
and History 23:539-64.

CLIFFORD, James. 1983. On Ethnographic Authority. Representations 1:118-45.

CLIFFORD, James and George E. MARCUS (eds). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics
and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press.

COTTLE, Thomas J. 1977. Private Lives and Public Accounts. New York: New
Viewpoints.

CRAPANZANO, Vincent. 1976. On the Writing of Ethnography. Dialectical
Anthropology 2:69-73.

CRAPANZANO, Vincent. 1977. The Life History in Anthropological Field Work.
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 2:3-7.

DRIESSEN, H. 1993. The Politics of Ethnographic Reading and Writing:
Confrontations of Western and Indigenous Views. Saarbrucken: Verlag Breitenbach.

ELLIS, Carolyn and Arthur P. BOCHNER 1996. Composing Ethnography: Alternative
Forms of Qualitative Writing. Oxford: AltaMira Press.

EMERSON, Robert M.,  Rachel I. FRETZ, and Linda L. SHAW. 1995. Writing
Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

ENSLIN, E. 1994. Beyond Writing: Feminist Practice and the Limitations of
Ethnography. Cultural Anthropology 9(4):537-568.

FARDON, Richard (ed.). 1995. Localizing Strategies: Regional Traditions of
Ethnographic Writing. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.

FERNANDEZ, James W. 1985. Exploded Worlds: Text as a Metaphor for Ethnography.
Dialectical Anthropology 10:15-26.

FERNANDEZ, James W. 1993. A Guide to the Perplexed Ethnographer in an Age of
Sound Bites. American Ethnologist 20(1): 179-184.

FINE, Elizabeth C. 1984. The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print.
Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

FLOWER, Linda S. 1988. The Construction of Purpose in Writing and Reading.
College English 50:528-50.

GEERTZ, Clifford. 1988. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.

GOODALL, H.L. 2000. Writing the New Ethnography. Oxford: AltaMira Press.

HAZAN, H. 1995. The Ethnographer's Textual Presence: On Three Forms of
Anthropological Authorship. Cultural Anthropology 10:395-406.

HERZFELD, Michael. 1983. Looking Both Ways: The Ethnographer in the Text.
Semiotica 46:151-66.

JACKSON, Jean E. 1990a. "Deja Entendu": The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological
Fieldnotes. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 19:8-43.

JACKSON, Jean E. 1990b. "I Am a Fieldnote": Fieldnotes as a Symbol of
Professional Identity. In Sanjek, Roger (ed.), Fieldnotes: The Making of
Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp.3-33.

LETT, James. 1997. Science, Reason, and Anthropology: A Guide to Critical
Thinking. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

LINSTED, S. 1993. From Postmodern Anthropology to Deconstructive Ethnography.
Human Relations 46:267-71.

MARCUS, George E. and James CLIFFORD 1985. The Making of Ethnographic Texts: A
Preliminary Report. Current Anthropology 26:267-71.

MARCUS, George E. and Dick CUSHMAN. 1982. Ethnographies as Texts. Annual Review
of Anthropology 11:25-69.

MARCUS, George E. and Michael M. J. FISCHER. 1986. Anthropology as Cultural
Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press.

MARCUS, George E. 1980. The Ethnographic Subject as Ethnographer: A Neglected
Dimension of Anthropological Research. Rice University Studies 66(1):55-68.

MARCUS, George E. 1980. Rhetoric and the Ethnographic Genre in Anthropological
Research. Current Anthropology 21:507-10.

MARCUS, George E. (ed) 1992. Rereading Cultural Anthropology. London: Duke
University Press.

MONGANARO, Marc (ed.). 1990. Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.

NENCEL, L. and P. PELS (eds.) 1991. Anthropological Writing in Constructing
Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science. London: Sage.

POLIER, N. and W. ROSEBERRY. 1989. Tristes Tropiques: Post-modern
Anthropologists Encounter the Other and Discover Themselves. Economy and Society
18:245-64.

RABINOW, Paul. 1985. Discourse and Power: On the Limits of Ethnographic Texts.
Dialectical Anthropology 10:1-13.

REED-DANAHAY, D (ed.) 1997. Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social.
Oxford: Berg.

ROTH, Paul. 1989. Ethnography without Tears. Current Anthropology 30(5):555-561.

RYAN, G. 1993a. Using WordPerfect to Macros to Handle Field Notes. Cultural
Anthropology Methods 5(1):10-11.

RYAN, G. 1993b. Using Styles in WordPerfect as a Template for Your Field Notes.
Cultural Anthropology Methods 5(3):8-9.

SANGREN, P. Steven. 1988. Rhethoric and the Authority of Ethnography:
"Postmodernism" and the Social Reproduction of Texts. Current Anthropology
29:405-35.

SPENCER, Jonathan. 1989. Anthropology as a Kind of Writing. Man 24:145-64.

STOLLER, Paul. 1994. Ethnographies as Texts/Ethnographers as Griots. American
Ethnologist 21:353-66.

STRATHERN, Marilyn. 1987. Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of
Anthropology. Current Anthropology 28:251-80.

TEDLOCK, Barbara. 1991. From Participant Observation to the Observation of
Participation: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography. Journal of
Anthropological Research 47:69-94.

THOMAS, Nicolas. 1991. Against Ethnography. Cultural Anthropology 6:306-22.

THORNTON, Russel. 1988. The Rhethoric of Ethnographic Holism. Cultural
Anthropology 3:285-303.

VAN MAANEN, John. (ed.) 1988. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

VAN MAANEN, John. (ed.) 1995. Representation in Ethnography. Thousand Oaks:
Sage.

WATSON, G. 1987. Make Me Reflexive-But Not Yet: Strategies for Managing
Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse. Journal of Anthropological
Research 43:29-41.

WEBSTER, S. 1982. Dialogue and Fiction in Ethnography. Dialectical Anthropology
7:91-114.

WEBSTER, S. 1983. Ethnography As Storytelling. Dialectical Anthropology
8:185-205.

WELLMAN, D. 1994. Constructing Ethnographic Authority: The Work Process of Field
Research and Ethnographic Account. Cultural Studies 8(3):569-83.

WOLCOTT, Harry F. 1990. Writing Up Qualitative Research. Newbury Park: Sage.

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