Schensul & LeCompte's excellent "Ethnographer's Toolkit" is a good place to start, particularly the introductory book, which lays it all out very clearly and simply.
Riall
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Dear Mette,
I would suggest the classic 'Body ritual among the Nacirema' as it's
short enough to read and discuss. I have found Duneier's /S//idewalk
/(2000), Ho's /Liquidated: an ethnography of //Wall street/ (2009) and
Boellstorff's /Coming of Age in Second Life: an anthropologist explores
the virtually human/ (2008) useful when introducing ethnography to
social scientists. Hope that helps!
Best wishes,
Marilou
On 04/01/2018 10:06, Berg, Mette Louise wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend some good texts that introduce and explain ethnography to other social scientists? I am preparing teaching material for a 2-hour session on ethnography for a group of mainly social policy and socio-legal scholars who will each be doing a short-term ethnographic study as part of a larger research project. I plan to use Pink and Morgan's 'Short-term ethnography: intense routes to knowing' from 2013, but would welcome suggestions for a succinct text that introduces ethnography more broadly. Recommendations for other good texts about short-term ethnography or illustrating the use and value of short-term ethnography would also be very welcome.
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> Many thanks in advance. I will collate suggestions so if anyone is interested, please get in touch with me directly and I can share the replies and suggestions with you.
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> Kind regards,
> Mette Berg
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