The Ethnographic Imagination

Textual Constructions of Reality

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ID7101308
AuthorsPaul Atkinson (0000-0001-8740-6561, Cardiff University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-04-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byThe Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality, D W Maynard, 1991
VenueEthnographic Imagination (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315852065
OpenAlexW2003036182
Open LibraryOL39509948M
ISBN9781315852065
LanguageEN
Citations received303

First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory, the author analyses how their arguments are constructed and illustrated, and gives many new insights into the literary convention of realism and factual accounts

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Psychology · Ethnology

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