A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies

Elliott, Denielle; Culhane, Dara

ISBN 10: 1442636610 / ISBN 13: 9781442636613

Published by University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, 2016

About this Item

Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from being fully present while engaging with the experience to analyzing representing, and communicating the results, with the hope of capturing different kinds of knowledge and experiences The book is structured around various methodologies-sensing, walking, writing, performing, and recording-and includes innovative exercises that allow both seasoned and aspiring ethnographers to develop a practice that can deepen and extend the ethnographic inquiry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442636610
• ISBN 13: 9781442636613
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from being fully present while engaging with the experience to analyzing representing, and communicating the results, with the hope of capturing different kinds of knowledge and experiences

The book is structured around various methodologies–sensing, walking, writing, performing, and recording—and includes innovative exercises that allow both seasoned and aspiring ethnographers to develop a practice that can deepen and extend ethnographic inquiry.

About the Author

Denielle Elliott is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. Dara Culhane is Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.