Description
About the Author
Robin James Smith is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University, UK, where he teaches sociology, ethnomethodology, and qualitative methods. He has published a number of articles from an ethnographic study of outreach work with rough sleepers, on qualitative research methodology, and studies of membership categorisation practices. Sara Delamont, FAcSS, is Emerita Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. She was the first woman to be President of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), and has been awarded the Lifetime Service Award of both the British Sociological Association and of BERA. Her most recent books are Embodying Brazil 2017 (with N. Stephens and C. Campos), Fieldwork in Educational Settings (Third edition) 2016, and Key Themes in the Ethnography of Education 2014.
Reviews
Sociologists and other social scientists contribute to the genre of autobiographical writing about ethnographic work by describing projects that never happened, fell apart, or went seriously off track. They reflect on what might have been, and return to the theme of absence. Among their topics are remarks from a lost engagement with the engaging ordinariness of Parkour, losing Bigfoot, flat claps and Dengue Fever: a story of ethnographies lost and found in India, losing students in a school ethnography: anthropology and the puzzle of holism, and finding lost things under the binds of a neglected thesis cover. -- Annotation (c)2019 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787147744
Author Robin James Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited