ANTHROP 3P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-15: Alice Goffman, Ethnography, Participant Observation
18 Apr 2018
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Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 15 in ethnographic essentials. Chapter thirteen deals with creating models or frameworks to identify connections. Chapter fourteen focuses on how to decide on a relevant and compelling manner of. Chapter twelve deals with how a researcher should sort their ethnographic data in order to begin writing the ethnography. The author, states that the researcher should sort their data by key themes, questions, moments, and experiences. This allows the reader to be drawn into the world described by the ethnographer. Certain moments can be extremely important in an ethnography as it supports the hypothesis, and brings the ethnography to life. According to murchison, the next step is to coding, or establishing which parts of the ethnography are associated with which themes. The process of creating an ethnography could be complicated by contradictory data either from interviews or participant observation, or even both.
