Dialogues with Ethnography : : Notes on Classics, and How I Read Them / / Jan Blommaert.

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• VerfasserIn: Blommaert, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters
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This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommaert traces the influence of his reading of classic works about ethnography on his thinking, and discusses a range of authors who have influenced the development of a theoretical system of ethnography, or whose work might be productively used to develop it further. Authors examined include Hymes, Scollon, Kress, Bourdieu, Bakhtin and Lefebvre. This book will be required reading for students and scholars involved in ethnographic research, or those interested in the theory of ethnography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Ethnography as Counter-hegemony: Remarks on Epistemology and Method -- 2. Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009) -- 3. Ethnography and Democracy: Hymes' Political Theory of Language -- 4. Ethnopoetics as Functional Reconstruction: Dell Hymes' Narrative View of the World -- 5. Grassroots Historiography and the Problem of Voice: Tshibumba's Histoire du Zaïre -- 6. Historical Bodies and Historical Space -- 7. Semiotic and Spatial Scope: Toward a Materialist Semiotics -- 8. Pierre Bourdieu and Language in Society -- 9. Combining Surveys and Ethnographies in the Study of Rapid Social Change -- 10. Data Sharing as Entextualization Practice -- 11. Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society -- 12. Marxism and Urban Culture -- 13. On Scope and Depth in Linguistic Ethnography: A Commentary -- References -- Index