The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook

Auteur

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, has authored six books, including a book of poems Imperfect Tense.

Kristina Jacobsen, Associate Professor of Songwriting and Anthropology (Sociocultural & Linguistic) at the University of New Mexico, is a touring singer-songwriter and Fulbright Scholar (USItaly, 20192020).

Texte du rabat

The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity to increase the impact and beauty of ethnographic study.

Contenu

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Creative Ethnography as a Field 2. Chapter 2: Creative Engagements with Social Theory: Writing through the Abstract to Arrive at the Concrete 3. Chapter 3: Reading Ethnographies with Creative Attention to the Senses 4. Chapter 4: Creative Approaches to What Matters & Paying Attention to What Makes You Curious 5. Chapter 5: Designing Ways to Make Data Sing 6. Chapter 6: Entering the Field Site: Space and the Non-Human: Seeing the Field, Landscape, and Non-Human Life in Places of Inquiry 7. Chapter 7: Language: We Are What We Speak 8. Chapter 8: Our Bodies, Our Selves: Interrogating the Ethnographic Body, Kinship and Food during Fieldwork 9. Chapter 9: People, Places, and Performance: Ritual, Religion, and Visualities 10. Chapter 10: Creative Approaches to Social Science Data 11. Chapter 11: Writing it Up: Multimodality, Genre, and How to Translate Creative Activity for Academic Audiences 12. Chapter 12: Creative Ethnographic Fieldstarters 13. Chapter 13: Looking Back and Moving Forward