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The Question of Intimacy in Ethnography

Methodological Developments in Ethnography

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1437-9, eISBN: 978-1-84950-500-0

Publication date: 10 January 2007

Abstract

I cannot subject listeners to such a long list. At my age I cannot always remember all 12 items myself. But I keep them in mind as a guide for discussions about ethnography, especially for assessing works that seem to be questionably ethnographic, that is, works that claim to be ethnographic but are suspect in that regard. I do not think that whether one meets these conditions is necessarily that important, except that recognizing what ought to be included to warrant the label ‘ethnography’ serves as a convenient shorthand for describing a study and judging its contribution.

Citation

Wolcott, H.F. (2007), "The Question of Intimacy in Ethnography", Walford, G. (Ed.) Methodological Developments in Ethnography (Studies in Educational Ethnography, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-210X(06)12002-1

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