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Watching Closely: A Guide to Ethnographic Observation
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Fortunately, Christena Nippert-Eng's Watching Closely: A Guide to Ethnographic Observation provides a practical, interactive guide for improving one's powers of observation. The book includes nine exercises for practicing observational skills, including a preparatory briefing and post-exercise discussion. Nippert-Eng also offers a weblink (global.oup.com/us/watchingclosely) to sample responses from her previous students, providing an additional resource beyond the text itself. Beyond the traditional tenets of field work, Watching Closely encourages readers to pursue more creative ways of collecting and analyzing data, such as sketching, diagramming, and photography, as well as developing more concrete expectations for the potential uses and meanings of ethnographic data.
Engaging and accessible, Watching Closely offers a guide for readers to not only strengthen their core skills and mindset as fieldworkers, but also to produce research that is more scientifically rigorous and persuasive. From social and behavioral scientists to user-centered designers and architects, undergraduate students to experienced fieldworkers, a vast array of readers will reap the benefits of learning more about how we observe.
- ISBN-100190235527
- ISBN-13978-0190235529
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateOctober 29, 2015
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.27 x 5.51 x 0.62 inches
- Print length294 pages
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"Short story, I am incredibly enthusiastic about this work.... As an intellectual intervention it is long overdue and as a training manual, it can help make a great difference. I organize my response by the questions present in the cover letter. And I won't repeat yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! though I could.... I don't know of anything like this. Plenty of qualitative methods'texts out there, but the only works on observation I know are precisely for artists, not field workers, or for the general reader (often coffee table books)."-John Levi Martin, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
"This is a methods book written for qualitative fieldwork. There are many others. They are typically mechanistic lists of do's and don'ts...This one stands alone. It advocates deep empiricism and provides the tools to get there--in a way that other ethnographic texts and methods courses do not. It is directly 'how to' rather than abstract and remote. Perhaps the most remarkable quality stems from Nippert-Eng's extensive observational studies of non-human species, particularly gorillas at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Watching such animals is her 'laboratory' to become acutely aware of behavior in others and she presses students to come up with analogous ways to sharpen their fieldwork skills.... Her book exercises, and accompanying commentary, aim to instill better ways to watch and understand human beings. Bravo. I think there is vast potential here."-Harvey Molotch, Professor of Sociology, New York University
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press (October 29, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 294 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0190235527
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190235529
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.27 x 5.51 x 0.62 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,840,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,541 in Anthropology (Books)
- #1,754 in Sociology Research & Measurement
- #1,865 in Social Sciences Research
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About the author
Christena Nippert-Eng, Ph.D. is a sociologist and Professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests include cognitive sociology, culture, technology, and everyday life including behaviors related to privacy. She is also interested in ethnographic methods and user-centered design and their potential application in the study and care of nonhuman animals. Christena is especially fascinated by gorillas.
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