Voices & visions

Description:

Representing some of our finest established and emerging scholars on the subject of ethnographic research, this collection tackles the perplexing issues and questions today's ethnographers face: Should ethnographies be about the ethnographer, the research community, and/or the surrounding community? What is unique about how compositionists conduct and write ethnographies? How can ethnographers negotiate among the roles of cultural workers, co-researchers with informants, and/or objective scientists? Through analysis of their own research, contributors self-reflexively explore why we, as graduate students and faculty members, select particular ethnographic approaches.

subjects: Authorship,  Ethnology,  Communication in ethnology,  Field work,  Anthropology,  Ethnic studies,  Social research & statistics,  Writing skills,  Music,  Education / Teaching,  American English,  Anthropology - Cultural,  Composition & Creative Writing - Academic,  Research,  Ethnomusicology,  Instruction & Study - Composition,  Communication in the social sciences,  Fieldwork